We are not a terribly observant lot. And we are not because we are focused on speaking into life instead of letting life speak into us. We have our well-oiled agendas, and we have honed our biases to a razors-edge. We know what we want, and we’ve effectively tied those wants to a rather harrowing sense of entitlement. Therefore, it’s not that … [Read more...]
The Lost Art – Parenthood
There is a tremendous and completely ingenious capability inherent in our humanity that exceeds our wildest expectations. Sadly, we have dumbed ourselves down to the point that we have compromised, and in many cases altogether forfeited these marvelous capabilities. In doing so, our conviction regarding our capability is marginalized to near … [Read more...]
The Face in the Mirror – The Pain of Having to Face Ourselves
Do I really want to see myself? Really? Not as I might prefer to see myself in order to have some rickety and ill-placed semblance of peace. Not the image that grants me permission to stay a course that maybe I should stay away from. Not the perception of myself that allows me to side-step guilt, by-pass accountability, and circumvent … [Read more...]
Being Thankful – Attitudes that Enliven
It seems that Thanksgiving; at least the meaning of it all is being lost somewhere. In many respects we’ve traded it wholesale for football, turkey, an insane variety of foodstuffs and an excuse for a four day weekend. In a lot of ways it’s become more the starting gun to Christmas; a brief celebration with a built-in justification to gorge … [Read more...]
Bobbing and Weaving
We all dance. Every one of us diligently works to side-step those things that we find less than palatable or downright ugly. We cleverly work to circumvent, defuse and detour around all of the many things that we find unsavory and therefore prefer not to deal with. In essence, we bob and weave and we tend to do a lot of it. Certain times … [Read more...]
Father’s Day Quotes to Enrich Your Holiday
Over the years I have written an extensive array of books, articles, blogs and quotes. During special times of the year, I search these writings for quotes to both enrich and enlarge our celebration of that particular season. For Father’s Day, I have selected a handful of quotations that express the power and importance of being a father. In a … [Read more...]
Manhood Manifest – Kisses in Death
The definition of manhood has undergone a torturous number of questionable revisions. Some of those revisions have been reflectively thoughtful. However, most of them appear to have been largely thoughtless. It seems that we’ve attempted to realign the definition of manhood in order to better align it with other definitions in our culture that … [Read more...]
What I Work to Remember – They Are People
When we get frustrated with people and begin to skirt the periphery of hatred, maybe we should consider a few things. When we come to despise them and wish to rid ourselves of them, maybe we should ask who they really are and what they’re really experiencing. When our tolerance level has long been surpassed and rage is all we know, maybe should … [Read more...]
A Noble Calling – A Noble Response
At times, the innumerable dialogues regarding the state of our nation appear to be less dialogues and more something akin to agenda mongering and rights crusading. It seems that we have hijacked the solemn rights and sacred liberties afforded us and have forced them into servitude around our ego-centric agendas and myopic special interests. The … [Read more...]
To Think With Thought – Wise Words for Today’s Problems
Sometimes we let the nature of the times feed fear and engender apprehension. We find ourselves swept away on the larger tide of some crisis within which we lose our balance and sacrifice our objectivity. We become part of the chaos rather than being an instrument to ascertain the gravity of the chaos and thereby bring an ascending calm to it. … [Read more...]
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