Saturday Mornings

Instagram:  bobgoff We're not limited by what we know, but what we can imagine . -- Bob  Goff

Many things you don’t want to do are actually ways for you to get better or stronger.

I've noticed ...when I mow the grass, I sometimes complain and feel sorry for myself. Maybe that's because I think no one will not...

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, t...

"Houston, we have a problem...".

' Poem  for the week' -- "The Creative Drive": A recent study found that poems increased the sale price of a home by cl...

How we relate to someone we love . . . provides an extremely clear and accurate mirror of how we relate to ourselves. -- John Welwood ...

Some people seem to be easily pissed off by generalizations—perhaps because they don’t feel accurately represented by whatever is being gene...

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers they give, but by the questions they ask. -- Simon Sinek Often times, people...

I've noticed ...that as they get older people tend to become preoccupied by  potential threats in life.

My work is to free myself of myself so that You can be born in me. -- Meister Eckhart

It's a privilege to sleep with someone. OK, I might now have the attention of some.  It struck me the other day what a privilege it is...

Visual - "Once": Joshua Tree National Park, CA More pics from a recent trip to San Diego  here ....

For the most part all [our] trials and disturbances come from our not understanding ourselves . -- Saint Teresa of Ávila

How good it is to center down! To sit quietly and see one’s self pass by!  -- Howard Thurman

Truth be told, there may not be that much great thinking going on—a  lot of  thinking , perhaps, but not much of it great. But, as indicti...

So many (most?) of our fears are self-imposed.

Ever noticed ...that those who preach loyalty often require much more of it than they are willing to provide? And, how they often use a gr...

Instagram:  bobgoff Each of us gets to decide every day whether to lean in or step back—to say yes, ignore it, or tell God why He has...

Consciously (or sub-consciously), some often try to keep people 'in' a group by constructing, and then maintaining, a belief narrati...

' Poem for the week' -- "A Skull": is like a house             with a brain inside. Another place where eating      ...

At any given moment you have the power to say:  this is not how the story is going to end. -- Christine Mason Miller

When men will only fight to protect their own comfort , women are left to fight for others alone. Thank God they do.

Good leaders stand up for the people they lead when they don't view them simply as problems.

I've noticed ...I can feel so different (physically, mentally, emotionally ...spiritually) in one part of a day than in another, not to ...

In very real ways, soul, consciousness, love , and the Holy Spirit are one and the same. Each of these point to something that is larger tha...

Another rather wonderful edition of Michiana Chronicles : A few weeks ago, I had the chance to sit in on a singing lesson with a well-...

Visual - "Active": Monterey Bay, CA

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. -- Galatians 5:1 My how we humans use the Bible sometimes.  Of course, the statement al...

In the initial stages of our journey in life, we seek to understand the meaning of our reality by describing our experience with it.  This...

The fears we don't face become our limits. -- Robin Sharma

I’ve noticed ...I think with more clarity when I am doing something else.

We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people. -- Rachel Held Evans If we cannot lov...

Instagram:  bobgoff None of us really fall in love, we just stop making everything about ourselves, and love floods into the space s...

' Poem for the week' -- "The More": The more I try by going it alone    the more I believe I need to The more I belie...

I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. -- John O'Donohue You know something is go...

Mostly, you start to grow up when you want to. ...unless you’ve been forced to earlier.

Managers work to see numbers grow. Leaders work to see people grow . ​ -- Simon Sinek

I've noticed ...if I took the amount of time I have spent comparing myself to others and put it towards who I am as opposed to who they ...

The goal of the spiritual life is to allow the Spirit of Christ to influence all our activity, prayer as well as service. Our role in this ...

There is no Wi-Fi in the forest , but I promise you will find no better connection. -- Anonymous More pics  here ....

More pics here ....

The way to move information from your head to your heart is through your hands. --  Brené  Brown Another way to say this truth is that ...

Pain is an indicator—the question is, of what?

Just like a plane takes me from Indiana to Montana, great writing or music moves me into wonderful places in my spirit.    I often feel tran...

I've noticed ...that I need to have space for a while where I’m not responsible for something. For me, orchestrating is an already we...

Instagram:  bobgoff A father's job is to get down on both knees, lean over his children's lives, and whisper, "Where do ...

When I was sixteen and first learning to drive with my mother, I nearly side-swiped a car in the adjoining lane. I still remember the fearfu...

' Poem for the week' -- "The Skylight": You were the one for skylights, I opposed Cutting into the seasoned tongue-and-...

I’ve learned a lot from conservatives —good and bad.

We have a sacred choice .  We can remain addicted to certainty because it seems to serve as an anchor in our often-troubling world.  Or we...

So much of what we think seems to be a function of what we've been exposed to.  This is often what puts people in positions of leadershi...

I've noticed ...that  sleep  is like a rinsing of the mind and heart.  The crazy things you feel and think are rearranged and flushed.  ...

Most of us come to the church by means the church does not allow.  -- Flannery O’Connor

Last week, I delivered the Baccalaureate address at my alma mater North Central High School in Indianapolis. This is what I said to the grad...

Visual - "Wood It?": Muir Woods National Monument, CA

Talent is often mesmerizing, isn't it?  Even startling at times. But, talent still needs to be cultivated—developed. And, It still r...

I am enamored with the power of wonder (click the  wonder  links for a sampling). Short of love—well, and maybe beauty—I suspect there is n...

Everything you are striving for, you already have . -- Rob Bell ...can you feel yourself objecting?  Good—now we're getting somewhe...

I've noticed ...that Mary is right: If you notice anything , it leads you to notice more and more. -- Mary Oliver

Pascal’s Wager famously argues a rational case for belief . Given that we cannot know whether God exists, he argues, it is better to be...

Statistics show a continuing decline in birth-rates around the country.

In celebration of Walt's 200th birthday ... ' Poem for the week' -- "O Me! O Life!": Oh me! Oh life! of the quest...

In the end you'll realize it really isn't about you. -- Unknown A description or a promise? Either way, this strikes me as rel...

You will change , when it hurts bad enough not to. ....unless you want to do it earlier.

If you don't deal with things, they will have a way of dealing with you. Brave leaders are never silent around hard things. Their jo...

I’ve noticed ...that challenges in my life were also giving me gifts . As I reflect on a number of artists I heard this weekend , I see a ...

Spiritual unity is diversity embraced and protected. -- Richard Rohr This mostly feels like a platitude until you personally have expe...

I want to re-learn how to receive.  Music, for me,  is often one of my great teachers. So, I’m eager for the merger this weekend at the ...

Visual - "Beads": Winona Lake, IN I've noticed ...I am easily enthralled by color and detail, especially when its obje...

You great Morehouse men are bound only by the limits of your own conviction and creativity. -- Robert Smith I'm guessing you heard a...

The ego can never stop—in the end, it will build a cage right around you, if you let it. It seems we must choose things that thwart the f...

Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow. -- Simon S...

I've noticed ...that I can be more hurt by what people won't say than what they will.  It often doesn't feel as much like  love ...

Imagine if every church become a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable .  Imagine if every church became a place whe...

Perhaps I am beyond 'A'; but whatever letter I'm on, it seems like whatever is next will be after this pregnant moment in time. ...

So, perception is the difference.

' Poem for the week' -- "At the Grave of the Forgotten": In a churchyard old and still, Where the breeze-touched branc...

The cost of your silence is greater than the cost of your truth . -- Brittany Packnett

What If ...what doesn’t make sense to me about another person, makes a lot of sense to them? What would it mean to be curious about that (...

Good leaders treat people as those to  serve , not as issues to manage.

Ever noticed ...that one of the easiest things to feel from others is rejection?  Like it is almost at the tip of our social tongue, at near...

Christian vitality has not always been maintained by the majority. It has, in fact, often been found only in small minorities. Such minoriti...

 Emma Donahoe sent me a link to this reading, ' The Ground of Hospitality '.  She is now working in Washington on a farm where the ...

Visual - "Silent Broadcast": Holliday Park - Indianapolis, IN Why do I feel like crying?  ...I think I know the answer, ev...

To love is to pay attention enough to know what needs to change. -- Micha Boyett Why are the ideas related to the words evolving and...