Saturday Mornings

I've noticed ...I try to consistently put certain things in the same spot—otherwise I end up wasting too much time and energy trying to...

It is a first-class human tragedy that peoples of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus whom they describe as the Prince o...

Instagram:  bobgoff If our lives are filled with purpose , we won't be distracted looking for everyone's approval .   --...

When will we learn? It’s essential that we make new mistakes . We don’t make nearly enough of them. Not enough original effort, not eno...

The art of loving each other well is letting people be where they are and not trying to convince them to be where I am. -- Kathy E...

We should never believe that what we are doing right now doesn't matter. Even if it looks like no one is being impacted, I am. At a...

We must find a purpose or cause to pursue, otherwise all we have left are our imperfections to focus on. -- Simon Sinek

I've noticed ...when I am procrastinating, the best thing I can do—is just one thing.  It is often the size or scope of the whole thing ...

Wisdom frees us to hold our thoughts about God, life, and the universe with an open hand, rather than a clenched fist, to face our quest...

' Poem for the week' -- "Down By the Carib Sea (VI: Sunset in the Tropics)": A silver flash from the sinking sun, Then...

Instead of looking to a relationship for shelter, we could welcome its power to wake us up in areas of life where we are asleep and where ...

The only way you can really teach well is to  do  what you’re saying.  Otherwise, you are mostly just telling—creating some conformity, but...

People don't like to feel used.  Bad leaders don't recognize this.

Ever noticed ...some people seem to need to be needed? And, if they’re not (needed), they don’t need you.

It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to...

My affection for the nature of trees ...just grows and grows and grows.

Visual - "Burst" Denver, CO (photo by Makenzie )

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge , but imagination . -- Albert Einstein To leave the world a bit better, whether by heal...

Love  trusts you.  Not naively so, either. Love says I love you , first—before you love me back—which reveals the true nature of love, bec...

Unauthorized views are, in effect, punished by incomprehension. -- Alan Jacobs , How To Think Ever heard something like, "I just...

I’ve noticed ...when I try to carry too many things at the same time, I tend to drop something.

On the whole we are not conscious of evolution, and we do not act as if our  choices   can influence the direction of evolution . . . . What...

Using the f-bomb doesn't automatically make you more authentic.

The NYU Stern professor noticed something happening on college campuses in 2014. Students began protesting speakers, equating speech with ...

' Poem for the week' -- "Bridge Called Water": I wrote hard on paper at the bottom of a pool near a canyon whe...

We bury the faint crackling of our inner fire underneath other safer noises and settle for a false life. -- David Brooks ...we're ...

Instagram:  bobgoff Don't let not knowing how it will end keep you from starting . -- Bob  Goff

Leaders create the conditions where people choose new actions. The  choices   are voluntary. They’re made by people who see a new lands...

I'm wondering ...about the nature of existence —why have I imagined it the way I have?  What has enculturated my imagination ?  What con...

When the Spirit is alive in people, they wake up from their mechanical thinking and enter the realm of co- creative power . -- Richar...

What does it mean to be nonviolent ? Coming from the Hindu/Sanskrit word ahimsa, nonviolence was defined long ago as “causing no harm, no in...

Visual - "Layers of Life" Bozeman , MT

Single cases of unhappiness are inevitable in our frail human life; but when there are millions of them, all running along well-defined groo...

It is helpful to start with questions , especially the ones being asked.

We have so little empathy for what we haven’t experienced in bodily form, not to mention those who have.

I've noticed ...sometimes I feel the rare, yet raw surge of life pulsing through me—everything is bright and alive.  I feel hyper-aware ...

' Poem  for the week' -- “YHWH's Image”: And YHWH sat in the dust, bone weary after days of strenuous making, during which He...

...something we knew we didn't know.  What do we value?

I really shouldn't even frame it like this—knowing vs belief—because many parts of each concept overlap each other. But, there are so...

Patience provides perspective . -- Simon Sinek

Instagram:  bobgoff It will be people with the greatest love , not the most information, who will influence us to change . -- Bob...

You can tell where a leader is as a person —give them some power  (or authority) and see what happens, particularly in their relationships....

I've noticed ...certain things about details. Some don't tend to stick to me.  Unless there's a reason for them to adhere (lik...

Self-hatred is also the hatred of God, because God and ourselves are united . -- Thomas Keating Just remember, on the practical level,...

Visual - "Pop" Torrey Pines State National Reserve, CA

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved . -- Sigmund Freud All actual life is encounter . -- Martin Buber Perhaps we can...

We can learn how to hold things with a firm, but also loose, grip .  An inability to do so often leads to damaging people and what they nee...

The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see . -- Alexandra Trenfor I love how my wife d...

Ever noticed ...that deep growth usually only comes after deep recognition?

Dismiss all anger and look into yourself a little. Remember that he of whom you are speaking is your brother, and as he is in the way of sa...

On the lighter side—what do you hear?

This seems fitting in light of this week's posts, especially in the context of the recent mass-shootings, because religion is often used...

The means justify the ends, not the other way around. Rejecting ideas too often also means rejecting people .

I think our drug of choice these days is knowing who we're better than. -- Nadia  Bolz-Weber The answer is not more opinions an...

When  leaders  won’t take responsibility (i.e., jump into the problems surrounding their people), it is rare that the people they serve wil...

I'm wondering ...is impatience a function of being insecure?

I have never been separate from God, nor can I be, except in my mind.  -- Richard Rohr

Visual - "Forces of Nature" Yosemite National Park , CA

You’re of little use to someone else (especially, but not limited to times of need), if you haven’t been taking care of your own self. Hea...

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan.  And, guess what they have planned for...

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...