Saturday Mornings

I felt it shelter to speak to you. -- Emily Dickinson

Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus. -- Martin Luther  King , Jr.

I'm wondering ...about how our sense of time impacts us. Contradicting a few things I believe about being in the now , I have been think...

Deepening your connection to God, in you and around you, do not be afraid to feel the love, the joy , and also the pain that are present. ...

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It's just too easy to eat cake when it is just sitting there on the counter — many things in life are like that. At almost every level,...

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We are better when our leaders are more truly human (when they act better because they believe better) than the rest of us.  What does that ...

Gratitude , ultimately, stems from recognizing “that we are miraculously part of something rather than nothing.” We need not always seek ou...

I've noticed ... I'm most grateful for things that I have directly experienced . It is in these contexts that I more recognize wha...

Now there was a woman who had been suffering from a flow of blood for twelve years.  She had endured much under many physicians and had spe...

Just because you have prepared for something doesn’t mean you don’t still have to go through it. You really can trust the Spirit of God in...

At the end of the last ice age, Scotland was a truly wild place, where the Highland tiger, a distinctly banded wildcat, and the wolf, lynx, ...

' Poem for the week' -- "For Who?": When the heavens with stars are gleaming    Like a diadem of light,  And the moon’s ...

Love is really...a recognition of another person's integrity and truth . -- Robert Graves

Is it not the case that what we are good at is often a function of what we have most applied ourselves to? And, is it not also the case tha...

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. -- George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” You don't have to stop very lo...

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Ever noticed ...how much there is to see, if you stop long enough and stay in one spot to see all the things that are happening in that pla...

My 3yo said she wanted to be an astronaut, and I said she had to study hard, go to college, learn a lot of science, and take a physical fitn...

Instagram:  richvillodas We keep Sabbath not because it makes us more productive at work.  We keep it to resist the idol of productivity...

Sometimes you just have to live life long enough to know what it ISN'T about. There is the need to say something and there is what needs...

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In 1926, Congress passed a resolution noting that since November 11, 1918, “marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and fa...

How you do anything is how you do everything.  -- Zen Buddhist saying

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...at the very least, consider the content AND assumptions (even if it's not your flavor of choice).   We actually have to re-learn how ...

I’m wondering … about our apparent need to always extend gains. In other words, when something is  gained or achieved, we seem to have this...

In the long run, violence does not achieve its own stated purposes, because it only deepens the bitterness on both sides. It leaves both si...

It takes an entire community for us to feel whole . -- Marisa Franco Understanding, love , and respect build cohesive families and communit...

  Aspens are like people — they only thrive in groups, never alone. -- Phil G., captured on the Alpine Loop Scenic Byway (Highway 92) in th...

We collectively called them 'savages' (surely, some of them were; but, so are many of us...).  This poem acknowledges what many of t...

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms , is like a sonnet:  you're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet you...

I've noticed ...that some days I don't  feel  very seen.  It's like I just exist  between  everything else and no one really not...

There are only two ways to influence human behavior:  you can manipulate it or you can inspire it. -- Simon  Sinek

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When my daughter was 7 years-old, she once interrupted a bedtime story to tell me, "In a pie-eating contest, it doesn't matter if y...

We can try, at great personal sacrifice, to be perfectly righteous, a perfect friend, perfectly responsive, perfectly available, perfectly f...

Sometimes it is hard to tell whether we should be directing more of life or cooperating more with it. Our true desires are too often submerg...

Photographer Marc Sellés Limós captured this photo of an epic lightning storm while also encapsulating star trails caused by the Earth’s rot...

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. -- Rachel Carson

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinion...

Know that career progression isn’t linear — sometimes you have to go sideways for a while before you go up. Broadening your experience is h...

Ever noticed ...that Truth is always just sitting there in the background? It really doesn’t care whether I  believe it or not, whether I k...

In many circles, seeking God is, among other things, a virtue. But too often, seeking God often drifts faster towards clichéd beliefs than ...

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One predator of the ' moment ' is analysis . More than anything else, our experiences (good or bad) inform what we believe . You c...

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' Poem  for the week' -- "Verses to the Moon": Oh moon, who now look over the roof of the church, in the tropical calm to ...

There is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed. -- Kahlil Gibran

I got nothin' today. ...some days really are like that, aren't they?   No shortage of material, actually.  Just of motivation — mayb...

Instagram:  richvillodas The level of power we hold must be commensurate with the level of inner work we have done (and are doing).  Other...

I’m wondering … how much of our actions are organized for approval from someone or a group whose approval we need or desire? Would the actu...

The first way to develop presence is in living each day with great simplicity . The practice of the presence of God , although a little diff...

Establishing your ways and becoming set in them are not the same thing. Even a tacit review of history exposes the fact that many acts we vi...

In light of yesterday's post, here is this year's contribution to a now annual series —  Fall Tree Of The Day :   Winona Lake, IN...

Poem for the week' -- "The Autumn": Go, sit upon the lofty hill,     And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and water...