Saturday Mornings

If you create dis-trust in everything but yourself, it may come back to bite you. How does the saying go?  "You reap what you sow....

The only thing we can't do is nothing. -- Simon  Sinek We all have choices to make. An easy slide appears to be into ...

I've noticed ...when I start keeping score, something needs attention within me.  Something is anxious.  Something is looking for an obj...

Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. -- 1 John 2:6 "Oh, sure I do that. ...not perfectly, of course, but hey non...

Visual - "Skyter II": Winona Lake, IN

Power seems to be a blood-lust for nearly all political endeavors.  The current Republican ideology seems to be preoccupied with  power , ...

  Does anything here surprise you (in light of mainstream media narrative)?  What factors are important to you?

If you want to have an argument, to raise tempers or to distract, the easiest thing to do is start bringing up things that are easy to argue...

Any worthwhile conversation starts with listening . -- Simon Sinek

Ever noticed ...something odd when people say, "God told me to..."? I don't question the possibility (well, actually, I do.....

Instagram:  nakedpastor Regarding the  church , half of what it  believes is a lot of crap...simple religious socialization (not that ...

A pro-life spokeswoman quit her job rather than endorse Donald Trump for another term in the White House. Trump has called himself the ...

' Poem for the week' -- "Diabolic": “Their colour is a diabolic die.”             —Phillis Wheatley What they ...

Healing is not a straight line, it is a weaving process. -- from an NPR program You cannot heal what you do not acknowledge. -- Ri...

I’m not sure that anything catalyzes our ability (or willingness) to change more than our direct experience with pain . Or, being constrain...

The most profound message of racial segregation may be that the absence of people of color from our lives is no real loss. Not one person w...

I've noticed ...if we don't all succeed; in the end, none of us will. In other words, it is always about everyone —not just me, no...

Why, when Jesus talks about feeding the poor, it's Christianity but when a politician does it, it's Socialism ? -- Lisa Sharo...

Love is largely something we imagine , until we actually have to  do it. This thought has been peculating in my mind, as I have approac...

Our basic need for human acceptance (if not love ) is primal, or perhaps another way to say it, God-given. The irony is that full human ac...

Sports commentator Mike Pesca reflects on the beginning of the NFL season as some players opt out because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Players...

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having  new eyes . -- Marcel Proust If you want to change ...

Leaders don’t play the victim card; narcissists pretending to be leaders do.

Ever noticed ... how often it looks like politicians want votes more than they want what is right — goodness , justice , harmony? Perhaps...

Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy.  He was brought down by law and order allied with religion , which is always a deadly mix. ...

COVID-19 has come for our plans and left us overextended in lots of ways. This is an emotionally and financially exhausting time to be li...

Visual - "Yellow":

Everyone, without exception, has found some things to not believe in. Things that are demonstrably true that we just don’t want to accept ....

How do we come to believe what we believe, especially when what is believed by some seems so much in contrast to what others believe (anot...

There's no point arguing with folks who have already made up their mind. -- Christopher Elliott It seems like there are a lot of ...

I've noticed ...so many times, when it feels like someone is making something about me, it really isn’t. Often in these situations, it...

Based on years of spiritual direction, I have observed that conservatives must let go of their illusion that they can order and control the ...

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In respect of all that has happened before and after the significant events that took place 57 years ago today... Our only chance ...

All we ever really have is the present. The present eclipses the past. But, our awareness and presence in the current moment impacts ou...

We really can't help anyone else , if we are sabotaging our own selves. "Well, I don't do that!" Well...I'm guessi...

Leadership is not a journey to rise in the ranks. Leadership is a journey to help those around us rise. -- Simon Sinek It seems to me,...

Ever noticed ...how much the equation changes, if you pull  politics  out of it (not to mention how much the conversation changes)? You ar...

let the wise listen and add to their learning ,     and let the discerning get guidance -- Proverbs 3:5 Wait, but don't they alre...

[T]his president and those in power — those who benefit from keeping things the way they are — they are counting on your cynicism. They k...

' Poem for the week' -- "Now and Then": “All life is built from song”    In youth’s young morn I sang; And from a top...

Expertise is not as much what you  know , but how you apply what you know.

Another school-year has begun; what a privilege to watch my wife teach this way year after year.

The bulletin moved just after 1 p.m. on Aug. 18, 1920, conveying the breaking news that the 19th Amendment had been ratified giving women ...

I'm wondering ... about the relationship between two words (representing two ideas)—intuition and paranoia. Given what seems to engage...

The composition of spiritual gifts in the local church can look a lot like a meal in the fellowship hall. Sometimes, the church has an abu...

I've noticed ... I am less and less interested in what people, who get paid just to talk, have to say. Give me a break (please!); do...

 In the end, what you did will be overshadowed by how you did it.

We spend much of our lives avoiding things, often subconsciously, that we have negatively experienced ; things we don’t want to be perpetuat...

On the Lighter Side :

What If ...there is nothing else to say? Sometimes, this can happen rather suddenly.  In a conversation, an awkward pause; uh oh, what to ...

Peaceful change starts within us and grows incrementally from where we are. Our social and physical location will influence the problems ...

NOW MORE THAN ever in the US, your money defines you. If you’re rich, you’ve splurged on enough canned food and TP to ride out severa...

' Poem  for the week' -- "Wild Geese": You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred...

You only know as much as you do . --  St Francis of Assisi

Everything going on in your world right now is just as important to you as what is going on in my world right now is to me. The irony is t...

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested from a crutch. -- J...

Ever noticed ...why using consistency as a measure of the quality of something is so attractive to us? It seems to be the case for both th...

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all. -- D...

Visual   - "Pines, Flowers, Mountains": Glacier National Park , MT Will nature's wonders ever cease? More pics ...

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -- Iris Murdoch

People don’t tend to really believe in something, until it’s personal. The fascinating part is about what makes things personal. Much of ...