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Wholeness: Faith in Real Life

Wholeness: Faith in Real Life
I appreciate what Rohr has to say in the quote below.  I believe it is important that our spirituality, our faith life, is fully grounded in the here and now, in the concrete of our real life.  Healthy Christian spirituality brings wholeness - we are created as physical, concrete beings who are also at the…
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Humility in a Status Chasing World

Somewhere during my formative years I came to believe that humility was the rejection of the reality that some things I did, I did well.  To accept any praise or even to share a strength or a talent was considered boastful and full of pride.  As such, I grew up feeling just as bad about…
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Prelude to Deeper Life: Vulnerability

Prelude to Deeper Life: Vulnerability
From my personal blog: LivingLoved-blog.com I find myself continuing to reflect on vulnerability.  Earlier this week I asked some friends for their thoughts about what vulnerability is and these are a few of their responses: leaving your emotional/physical/mental well being open to growth as well as pain Dropping your protective walls… leaving oneself open to…
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Deeper Life: Vulnerability

Deeper Life: Vulnerability
It is true of most human beings - to be loved, to be accepted as they are, and yet nothing is as elusive.   To be loved and accepted to the degree requires vulnerability and any one who has risked beyond the superficiality of the masks we use to conceal our true selves knows it can…
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Discovering Life through Failure

Discovering Life through Failure
 The Take-Away: "It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound reinvention. . . . Whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The…
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Intro to the Love Paradigm

Intro to the Love Paradigm
The Love Paradigm is like a new set of eye glasses that alter slightly the way we see things.  Worldview can be defined as a collection of intellectual, emotional and / or spiritual paradigms that are based upon beliefs about the world, about reality, about truth.  These paradigms are like a skeletal system (gives organization…
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Prayer: Ignation Contemplation

Prayer: Ignation Contemplation
This video with Jim Martin SJ provides a brief introduction to Ignatian style of prayer called Contemplation.  This is a rich, creative and very powerful way to experience God in prayer through the scriptures.  Martin describes in very simple terms how we can enter into the stories of the Gospel using our imagination and gain a greater…
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Character of a Leader

Character of a Leader
Working with leaders in different spheres, we see time and again that much of the popular thinking of leadership falls short.  While working a particular model or strategy for leadership, or being very knowledgeable in a particular area may go a long way to making a good company or a good executive, there is something…
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Small things with Great Love

Small things with Great Love
It was one of the hottest days of the dry season. No rain in more than a month, the crops were dying, and the cows had stopped giving milk. The creeks and streams were long gone and this dry season would bankrupt several farmers before it was through. One day while I was in the kitchen…
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Does Self-awareness make us Prideful?

Does Self-awareness make us Prideful?
How we respond to God and others is greatly impacted by how we see ourselves.  Often folks misunderstand the idea of self-awareness.  They mistakenly believe self-awareness to be self-centred, selfish and arrogant.  Healthy self-awareness is something quite different.I remember the first time I heard the concept of self-awareness.  From my fundi-evangelical worldview, it brought up…
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