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What we think they see

Posted on March 1, 2020March 1, 2020 by Michael Rose

A strange adventure at Costco last Wednesday. As I was pushing my cart, doing my shopping and people watching I saw a lady walk towards me with what looked like a nasty bruise right in the middle of her forehead. I thought to myself ‘I wonder what she walked into?’ A few minutes later I saw…

The 4 Minute Soul Spa

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 by Michael Rose

Feeling STRESSED? We live in a highly pressurized world. Finances, work, health, parenting, relationships, and trying to juggle a multiplicity different things that are all screaming for our attention. Add to this how we are bombarded by many constant more subtle stresses reported in the media; wars, economic crunches, accidents, natural disasters war and so much more….

The Many Faces of Love – Agape

Posted on November 13, 2019April 26, 2021 by Michael Rose

It is important to be specific and clear what we mean when we talk about love. There are many different kinds of expression of love but having a solid living/working definition of love is crucial.

An obstacle to Deeper Living

Posted on August 19, 2019August 20, 2019 by Michael Rose

As I often write and my friends and clients are all too familiar, I am a huge fan of becoming, journey type of language. The key here is we don’t ever arrive and each present moment opens to a new present moment, hopefully with each adding a little more light, a little more understanding of…

I wish I could hate them.

Posted on July 18, 2019July 18, 2019 by Michael Rose

I wish I could hate them. In ways, it would be so much easier. Their violence, racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, xenophobia, greed, exploitation of the poor, the anything-to-win-politics and indiscriminate, consumption of the planet and each other. I hate the scapegoating, half-truths, spins … all the bullshit. I hate the value of winning at all…

Facets of Divine Love

Posted on June 30, 2019June 25, 2019 by Michael Rose

The word love has certainly changed over the years. The subtle change has resulted in love moving from an active verb to a possessive noun. Perhaps part of the issue is that in English, we have the one word for love – love. We often add adjectives to describe a particular quality of love but…

Vulnerability – Art of Showing Up

Posted on April 30, 2019May 1, 2019 by Michael Rose

They started their presentation with a 10-minute litany of why they are “f’’d up,” and this led into a conversation about vulnerability. Their attempt to connect with us with pseudo vulnerability was less connecting, and more ‘this person could really benefit from some therapy.” I think vulnerability is often misunderstood. For lots of folks, vulnerability…

Sanitized for your Convenience?

Posted on December 15, 2018December 23, 2020 by Michael Rose

I don’t know why but for some reason I have this hangover from my early religious training – that God abhors a mess. There was a season many years ago that I can remember teaching that the Father actually turned His face away from Jesus on the cross because Jesus was becoming sin (on our…

War on Christmas? Still?

Posted on December 2, 2018December 3, 2018 by Michael Rose

Fresh snow has fallen on the CornCob City, my prairie home. The Town has the parks adorned with decorations and lights. It’s quite pretty – the twinkle of the lights and the Merry Christmas signs. And yet not so heartwarming because over the past few years, in reaction to a manufactured War on Christmas,…

Potty Mouth Prayer

Posted on November 1, 2018November 1, 2018 by Michael Rose

Is there a place for using a potty-mouth in prayer? You know, profanity, swearing. In a moment of angst, and no other word will do, is it okay for followers of Jesus to let fly with the nasty four-letter words? Never? Maybe? Depends on the word? As long as you conjugate them properly? What’s your…