Saturday Mornings

To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to ano...

Instagram: brenebrown It's not fear that gets in the way of showing up—it's armor.  It's the behaviors we use to self-pro...

Leadership is as much about learning as it is about teaching. -- Rich Sheridan Since  leadership  implicitly involves people, it would...

I’ve noticed ...it is hard to be human from a distance. Relating seems to almost require proximity .

Visual - "Spaces" Christ Church Cathedral - Indianapolis, IN I like this title because I sense that something new is happe...

The Spiderman Paradox On one hand, Uncle Ben’s rule makes great sense: “With great power comes great responsibility.” The essence of t...

As I reflect today on another  year, now 33 of marriage to Tami, I am a bit overcome. Collecting reflections on this in recent years ha...

Close relationships only thrive when you have time for frequent interactions.  -- Brian de Haaff

It's easier to build cases against people when you're not in relationship with them. Even more powerful are the number of ways th...

A boss tells people what they can do to achieve a goal. A leader asks people what they can do to advance a vision . ​ -- Simon Sinek

I've noticed ...groups often start around something in common that they’re working against . But, they  stay together when they conti...

Humanity now needs a Jesus who is historical , relevant for real life, physical and concrete, like we are. A Jesus we can imitate in practi...

Up to 30% of people in developed countries now suffer from chronic insomnia. How did we get so sick and tired? We evolved on a rotating...

' Poem for the week' -- "In Blackwater Woods": From the poem: to live in this world you must be able to do three ...

The nature of  life has an assumed  direction embedded in it—outward. And the arc of that outwardness is forward. The only way out of ...

Instagram:  bobgoff Fear only has as much power as we give it; hope works the same way. -- Bob  Goff Sound familiar? Do not...

Leaders know that often hidden in problems are some of the best opportunities—ones that we often miss because we only see them in a certain...

I've noticed ...that, in the end, we don't want the simulated life—we want what is real, alive , and  engaging .

Throughout the first five centuries people understood Christianity primarily as a way of life in the present, not as a doctrinal system , es...

The brain , the body and screens —it makes sense that what and how we take in the world has impact on how we exist, especially since we ar...

Visual - "Textearth" Glacier National Park , MT

...when everyone around you is going negative . Your mammal brain wants to run when the rest of the herd runs. In the state of nature, you’...

Our sense of who we are is too often relative. We see or evaluate ourselves through the lens of how we see others (I'm not like that, I ...

The journey of a leader is fraught with trials that reveal, test, and sharpen his / her spirit. There is a natural pattern to human growth ...

Ever   noticed ...that we often don’t recognize certain things because of what we’re looking for ?

If we deny anyone their humanity, if we do not recognize everyone as a sister or brother, if we oppose others who are different and seek to ...

Hotels are often on the frontlines of human trafficking. It’s a horrific form of modern slavery that has entrapped more than 40 million...

I've never seen the thermometer on my car hit -20 degrees before:

' Poem  for the week' -- "The Cabbage Butterfly": The human brain wants to complete— The poem too easy? Bored. The p...

When we waste so much time with things that numb us—things that keep us from being alive to ourselves and, thereby, to those around us—we ...

Instagram:  bobgoff It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. -- Bob  Goff Desperation makes us belie...

When it comes to  leading human-beings, we already  tried   controlling them—what they want  is to be engaged.

I've noticed ...good friends are those who remain interested in knowing you well enough to love you by encouraging—even challenging—you ...

[Contemplative] practices beckon earthbound bodies toward an expanded receptivity to holiness.... Receptivity is not a cognitive exercise b...

Our 'live'  snowglobe  is all shook up out there.  An hour of tromping around in the woods ' blanket of white-silence was still ...

I think the way we talk about technology is in danger of repeating a mistake. It's a mistake that we made very recently and with catas...

Visual  - "Contradictions" Winona Lake, IN

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. -- Blaise Pascal

The point isn't what you're not capable of; rather, it is what you are capable of. Deficiencies are a given, not an indictment—l...

Leadership ...is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from. -- Simon Sinek

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -- Martin Luther King , Jr. Ever noticed how death  seems to...

What is the relation of [ contemplation ] to action? Simply this. He [or she] who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world ...

Raising mentally strong kids who are equipped to take on real-world challenges requires parents to give up the unhealthy — yet popular — ...

' Poem for the week' -- “When Death Comes”: When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. ...

​ Love is most perfectly displayed when we give goodness to those who disregard us, especially to those who hate us.

Instagram:  bobgoff You'll be able to spot people who are becoming love because they want to build kingdoms, not castles.  They fi...

After a while, people only hear what you do , not what you say.

Ever noticed ...that those with perceived power do not seem as capable of listening to others as those who are truly powerful because they ...

The genius of Jesus ’ ministry is that he reveals that God uses tragedy, suffering, pain , betrayal, and death itself (all of which are nor...

Snow makes me happy. I  wonder  why.  At some level, it doesn't matter.  But, at another, I wonder what snow triggers within me.  I h...

Our ignorance is invisible to us. -- David Dunning For every sense and every component of human judgment , there are illusions and...

' Poem for the week' -- "A prayer for the New Year": Grant that I may pass through the coming year with a faithful he...

' Poem for the week' -- "Invocation": Let us try what it is to be true to gravity, to grace, to the given, faithful to...

I don’t think anybody can grow unless he is accepted exactly as he is. -- Fred Rogers

As much as anything else,  wealth in our society seems to be a function of public policy. On a related note (OK, not really...), I'm ...

When the people we serve present themselves, when they offer us their attention and their trust, we need to work to see two things: Who ...

I've noticed ...you really can’t orchestrate someone else's development. A non-formulaic mixture of external encouragement, atten...

Sin is a refusal to keep growing . -- St. Gregory of Nyssa I would love to have talked to this guy—I think he is really on to something...

...a beautiful winter evening of hockey at Notre Dame stadium - ND vs UM.

We’re always chasing something—be it a promotion, a new car, or a significant other. This leads to the belief that, “When (blank) happens,...

We don’t wake up until we do it collectively . -- Unknown I heard this recently, but didn't get the name of the author of it.  It ...

We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our inter-connectivity, what happ...

There's nothing quite like the motivation that arises from being held down.

Like last year , I am anticipating what a new year may bring.  I feel aware of my desire for the following Generosity of Spirit: Growing m...

We began in  Montana  and are ending  2018  in Colorado: ...with a few places in between.  I’m grateful for the opportunity and exposu...

A power from outside is coming, a power that is able to make a  new creation out of people like us, stones like us, people who have no ca...

To what degree will I proceed in something I believe, when others appear not to be interested? To what degree will I proceed in advancing s...

A  poem  as we end the year—“Departed Days”: Yes, dear departed, cherished days,    Could Memory’s hand restore Your morning light, your...

We don’t want to let go of the past because that is how we learned how to live and be who we are. -- NPR interview

Instagram:  bobgoff We can't be new creations if everything stays the same. -- Bob  Goff

Christmas in the Heart The snow lies deep upon the ground, And winter’s brightness all around Decks bravely out the forest sere, With...