Saturday Mornings

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. -- Joseph Campbell

Christianity has access to the answer.  The problem is, a lot of it right now really doesn’t understand the question.   And, because of that...

The skill of emotional intelligence is simply the ability to recognize your feelings and understand how you’re responding to them — and do...

I’ve noticed ...a fatal-flaw in my personal psychology — self-consciousness.   Self-consciousness is not self-awareness ; it's self-prot...

Sabbath is not just rest from making things. It's rest from the need to make something of ourselves. -- Rich Villodas Among just a few ...

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I don’t care how much talent you have, you have to do something for a while to get really good at it — there’s nothing like experience to l...

I see the direct connection between moving and health. -- Mathea Allansmith, 92 - oldest woman in the world to complete a marathon

Thanksgiving Day : Grateful is something to BE. Plus, some some history of the day... here .

For the early-risers on this thankful day, here's a couple of unrelated prism-like (glints of light) considerations for you: ... This is...

Gratitude is a gateway. So much research demonstrates that a discipline of  gratitude  leads to health of many kinds.  But, it also confirm...

Gratitude isn’t dependent on my circumstances. It’s like a muscle. The more you flex and exercise it, the stronger it becomes. Then, the mor...

Ever noticed ... when you are more aware of what you are thankful for ? …or the things that inhibit that  awareness ?

Generations come and generations go, but the earth never changes. The sun rises and the sun sets, then hurries around to rise again. The wi...

We all have working assumptions, some of which are true. Words matter a lot, but still not to the same degree for everyone. We are all thin...

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An annual series:  Fall Tree Of The Day : Warsaw, IN More Fall pics here ....

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud. -- Nicholas Nassim Taleb

What is justice?   Does anybody really care what it is (especially those who have the power over it)? What is the basis of our sense of jus...

Leaders are ones who learn to absorb pain without passing it on to others or to themselves.  -- Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice

I'm wondering ...if pleasure is not as much a goal, as it is a byproduct. When it becomes a goal, its logical extent becomes a bit stra...

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers. -- Abraham Joshua Herschel

It’s one thing to talk about something that is good ; it’s quite another to actually see it happening (just one example... here ). We seem ...

In November 1919, President Woodrow Wilson commemorated Armistice Day, saying that Americans would reflect on the anniversary of the armisti...

In the school nurse’s office, I loved chatting with Sarah, a vivacious 9-year-old who had been managing her Type 1 diabetes for years. Sever...

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. -- Eckhart Tolle  

I’m trying something new today.... I will be adding things here as the day unfolds. Largely unedited, I’m going to try to capture the flow o...

Asking for help is an act of service. Don't deny the people who love you the honor of being there to support you. -- Simon  Sinek

I’ve noticed ...that I can work rather hard (often subconsciously) to balance walking a tight-rope between creating response and creating re...

' Poem  for the week' -- " A Slippery Slope ": I can feel an unfamiliar inclination to cynicism growing with the weight o...

A human being would certainly not grow to be 70 or 80 years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species to which he belongs. The af...

From Michiana Chronicles : Grandma watched the game through a chain link fence, sunk deep into a folding camp chair near the concession stan...

Years ago, I read about a study that has stuck with me. Middle school children were given a scenario: Your mother is very ill and needs medi...

We are stronger when we listen , and smarter when we share. -- Rania Al-Abdullah

So much of our existence has become fragmented.  And, our sense of stress has increased accordingly. According to Outside magazine, Americ...

Whatever you have just done is not nearly as important as what you are doing right now. -- Mike Krzyzewski

Ever noticed ...that how we choose to view things is often serving something within us?

May the Church see politics through the lens of Jesus and not Jesus through the lens of politics . -- Rich Villodas

Don’t impoverish yourself with worry . There is so much beauty around...that you had nothing to do with. People with resources can really i...

AXIOS:  Finish Line Tonight's photo — which comes to us from our colleagues at Axios Portland — was taken by an 18-year-old in Oregon wh...

' Poem  for the week' -- " Burning Bushes ": It’s fall here, so all the bushes are burning: engulfed in red and cool to t...

Believe that life is worth living, and your  belief   will help create the fact. -- William James

My friends, we are on the way to becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group of Americans left behind, whose ...

God leads by compassion , never by condemnation. God offers us the grace to weep over our sins more than to perfectly overcome them, to hu...

I'm wondering ...what, in the end, are the better (good) standards of quality-of-life? Clearly, as a culture, we haven’t nailed it…as mu...

In the Old Testament, justice and sin were both relational realities, and justice was not about upholding individual rights, but protecting...

 

Some people sure seem to have a lot of opinions about how other people should be living their lives…. No one really likes to be managed — th...

  On The Lighter Side :  The Daily Cartoonist

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else. -- Fred Rogers

…happened 60 years ago today: See some of what she has done since... here . Oh, and:

At some point, you could no longer avoid the conclusion that chaos is not only the result, but the strategy . ...how immediately resonant is...

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.  -- Theodore Roosevelt

I’ve noticed …t hough I have a deep respect for both, I’ve typically had more psychological interests than mechanical ones. If nothing else,...

We're not an advertisement for Jesus; we're supposed to be evidence. -- Bob Goff

When we’re doing something bad (or harmful), we have to stop doing it — we can’t just try to do something good, too, to offset it…but, then...

I had queued another ' On the Lighter Side ' for today.  But, I just can't do it, in light of the horrific world events this wee...

Instagram:  mariashriver The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are.  Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not. -- Albe...