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Be Empty and Know – Spiritual Disciplines

In my opinion, one of the most powerful and one of the most overlooked spiritual disciplines is that of silence.  Remember, when I talk about spiritual disciplines I am talking about those practices that cultivate and enrich our relationship with Father – they are never a means to earn Gods love or favor. Silence is…
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10 Ideas for Empowering Leadership

Leadership is not a job, not a role one plays at work and then puts aside during the commute home in order to relax and enjoy real life. Rather, leadership is the leader's real life. -    CHRIS LOWNEY, Heroic Leadership Leadership flows from who you are and whether you realize it or not you are…
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Be Still

One of the things I hear most often from many folks is the chronic busyness of life.   They are bombarded from all directions, all day so it seems to many.    This driven pace is often a reflection of one's inner life - their thoughts and emotions, and as such it is often difficult…
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45 Things to Live Well (11-15)

We continue on with 45 simple things to help us live a deeper, more authentic life!  Again, don't feel like you need to employ every suggestion - just pick a couple that seem to resonate with you.  The adventure is to reflect and learn about yourself and take a series of deliberate step towards being the most…
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$3 Worth of God Please

I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of God to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant.…
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Special in a Real way

A powerful address by this teacher to the graduating class and it seems many others think so too for this speech has gone viral and the subject of many a blog post.  It seems to me to awaken / jar some of us from our slumber, warm the hearts of some of us older folks…
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Hope on the Line

I hung hope out with the laundry, clothes-pinned tenderly beside a pillowcase, a tea towel, two sheets and some socks. I could tell she needed air, a sweet puff of wind. She needed to get warm again basking in the sun.   After a few hours, I came out with my basket and took her…
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45 Things to Live Well (6-10)

We continue with our 45 simple things to live well.  While not an exhaustive list, these are good ways to start to remove clutter by letting somethings go and diving into others. Lets not lose sight that the goal of this journey is to become more authentic, more whole - more w-holy.   Living well…
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45 Things to Make Life Easier (1-5)

We have gathered a few interesting tidbits of simple things that can go along way to help make life a little easier. Remember, a few small changes over time can have a big impact on enriching the quality of your life.   Allow small changes to be intergrated into your natural rhythm of life -…
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Looking Up AND Out

A man was walking in a large city’s downtown.  The city was a-hum with activity, people coming and going.  Cars and trucks up and down the street, transporting people and goods here and there.   There were retail shops alive with people coming and going.  As the man continued on his way he saw a…
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