Saturday Mornings

  Let me blow your mind a bit: When you choose things, you’re not choosing based on personal preferences. Your choices are somewhat random,...

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' Poem for the week' -- "Aunt Chloe’s Politics": Of course, I don’t know very much     About these politics , But I t...

Before you speak of peace , you must first have it in your heart.  -- St. Francis of Assisi

Empathy is taking the time to understand the path that someone else has walked. -- Mrs Murphy, Idaho Falls teacher Both individually an...

If you find that you can't seem to give yourself to something, it usually means that you are giving yourself to something else.  What ar...

"Times are a changin'" , regarding how we do things.  As of just a few days ago:   AXIOS So many are hoping that in just ...

I've had an ' I’m wondering ...' mini-series going on here for some time now (follow the link by the same name, if interested). ...

' Poem for the week' -- "You Still Dream": Here, poem meets prayer. We are exceedingly comfortable with posturing and sel...

In the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study, patients who adhered to healthy dietary principles (low me...

Visual - ' Fall Tree of the Day , 2020" Winona Lake, IN More Fall 2020 pics here ....

New actions will be guided by a preferred future that embraces: resilience in place of growth collaboration in place of consumption wisdom...

When you judge people that are different from you, you’re killing them. Yes, it is THAT serious. You're killing part of them and, any ...

Your team is down by a few points and the game is almost over. What play should you call? [When can we talk about the system of drafting and...

Ever noticed ...how often people’s strengths , good or bad, are often a function of or correlate with their surroundings?

  Instagram:  mariashriver I want to remind you of your decency, of your character , of your compassion and your vulnerability .  I want ...

I'm not against Christian hope , just using it to sell things. -- Barbara Brown Taylor

A few years ago, an unimaginable thing happened in my life. I wanted to help someone I cared about, someone who was sick with an illness he...

' Poem for the week' -- "Third Rock from the Sun": That streetlight looks like the slicked backbone             of a d...

At the end of the day, we are all mostly curators. Sometimes a thought needs description; context that enhances the quality of its truth. At...

The other day, a beautiful sunrise was taking place right in front of me, and yet there I was fiddling with my phone so that I could get a ...

Great insights come through interacting with people, gaining experiences and letting your mind make connections.  -- Scott Barry Kaufman

I've noticed ...you have to be willing to be hurt by the ones you love — it is the only way. The alternative — being unwilling to be hur...

We must pray "Search me & know me" more than "Convince & convict them."  To loathe our enemy more than we look ...

A new global risk poll surveyed tens of thousands of people in 142 countries to determine what people worry about when it comes to risk and...

The other night, as President Trump convalesced at Walter Reed, I took a spin through social media to see the latest news on his health. In...

Visual - "Wood Eye": Winona Lake, IN

The problem: how can we get people what they want and need? It turns out that the simple short-term answer is the market. The marketpl...

Our question needs to evolve from what’s wrong, with this or that, to what are we going to do about it?       What are we going to do to mak...

Integrity is when our words and deeds are consistent with our intentions. -- Simon Sinek Another thing we could use a little more of t...

Ever noticed ...that connection to ideas seems to go only so far without connection to people those ideas impact? This betrays the fact that...

Authentic spirituality is about finding true freedom . It offers us freedom from our smaller selves as a reference point for everything or a...

In the end, we need a purpose for our existence ...some reason (or driver) that compels us thru the meaninglessness of many things about lif...

' Poem for the week' -- "Red Brocade": The Arabs used to say, When a stranger appears at your door, feed him for thre...

Maybe next week the Vice-Presidential candidates can return things to something more...Presidential (our children are watching how our leade...

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 ...