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What is Guiding You?
Lights will guide you home.
What is guiding you?
Friends joke with me that I am chronically or habitually late.
That isn't something to be proud of and while for a while it seemed like a joking matter, one day someone shared with me that when ...
What does your stumbling stone look like?
At some point, we are all going to fall.
At some point in our lives some event, person, death, idea, or relationship is going to enter our lives and we just aren't going to be able to cope with the challenges of those situations with our ...
Nostalgic Amnesia
It’s called “nostalgic amnesia.”
It is a state of mind where we experience warm fuzzy feelings about where we’ve been, reminiscences of a past time, and we completely forget how crappy that time was when we were actually, originally ...
What are you doing with the scars?
We’ve all gone through ick in our lives.
We’ve had things happen to us and we’ve also done things that cause us to feel separated from God’s love.
The question is . . . what to do with it?
Do we sit in our pain and allow it to define us?
Or do ...
Decluttering Our Soul
Did you know that socks can spark joy?
Marie Kondo wrote a book in 2014 called, The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up and it has sold over 9 million copies. There is even now a popular Netflix show around these principles and people are finding ...
Would you hide your tattoo?
Every time a friend of mine goes home to see her parents she dresses strategically so that she hides her tattoos. It can be 90 degrees outside but she will wear something that covers the tattoos on her arm so that she doesn’t hear flack from ...
Are you clingy?
When we cling too tightly, we lose our way.
William Shakespeare once said, “The eyes are windows to the soul.”
A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to meet some psychologists from Johns Hopkins who were doing some research with clergy people. ...
Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind
There is no “pre-cleaning” required.
Years ago I went to visit a friend and when I arrived she asked if I would entertain myself for a few minutes while she finished up some last minute tasks before we left.
I assured her that was fine so I ...
The Greatest Mistake
Sometimes we just need to get out of the way.
It wasn’t a pretty scene. There is a phrase, (you can substitute the profane word if you’d like), but it was a Crap Show!
Although I try really hard to always consider the feelings of others, ...
So Much More Than Fire Insurance
Sometimes a “fear based” theology works.
And sometimes it doesn’t.
In the 1940s - 2000s a predominant theme in American religious culture was “fire insurance.”
People weren’t taught to question and explore scripture but instead trust it ...
It Is All Going to Be OK!
Easy to hear, but do you believe it?
Hearing it, believing it, and claiming it are very different things.
A few weeks ago I found a file named, “Funeral Services.”
I was preparing for the funeral of a Westie, (a personal who calls West ...
Who Gets the Last Laugh?
It is ok to laugh at bad things.
Have you ever been in a situation where it is HIGHLY inappropriate to laugh, yet you find something terribly funny, you start laughing, you try to HOLD IN the laughter, and you can’t?
The more you try to hold ...
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