Twenty one years ago while on a year sabbatical from our work in India, I entered the darkest period of my life. It was not a day, a week, or a month. It was extended. To call it ‘burn-out’ is probably getting close, but doesn’t quite describe it as some aspects of my life continued… Read More You Want it Darker? The Darkest Psalm in the Scriptures
What is the first responsibility of a leader? While reading one of my all time favorite books on leadership in the early 1990’s, Leadership is an Art by Max DuPree, his answer to this question jumped out at me. It changed in some ways my perception of leadership at the time and ever since, as… Read More What is the first responsibility of a leader?
Last September I had the privilege to travel across China and into Central Asia with a small team, along one of the routes of the ancient Silk Road. For the first part of my writing, see Pilgrimage across the Silk Road: Part 1. In this second section, I will continue to bring out some of the… Read More Pilgrimage along the Silk Road: Part 2
A few weeks ago I wrote a post on ‘The Wall of Enabling’. In it I described what I have seen at times in conversations with people, when a wall goes up. Often this can be due to someone with a misguided loyalty refusing to engage with anything that seems overly negative. For those that… Read More The Wall of Enabling, Part 2
There are many kinds of walls we can construct. Between nations to keep people out, or keep people in. Within families due to disagreements over politics, inheritances, divorce, or really just about anything however big or small. Walls protect us, shield us, but can also keep us enclosed in our own denial or too- safe… Read More The Wall of Enabling, Part 1
There are many types of pilgrimages. Some are walking, some are inner journeys of the soul. Throughout human history, people have embarked on these journeys, whether outer or inner. A pilgrim is one who seeks to listen, to follow where they may not have normally gone. In some ways, to be a pilgrim is to… Read More Pilgrimage across the Silk Road: Part 1
Though I’m not well versed on the process of a caterpillar/ butterfly emerging from a chrysalis, I am fascinated by it. And all of us can agree on the beauty of the butterfly no matter the means of development. But recently I have been thinking again of how much the formation of our lives is… Read More Don’t Mess With the Mush: Life in a Chrysalis
These two ducks pictured are inseparable. I first noticed them a few days ago in the pond near the place we are staying. Then every day since, I never saw them apart. Always near each other, circling or side by side. I took this photo which has my shadow, which I don’t mind as it… Read More Who is your Anam Cara? (Soul friend)
To be recognized as an ‘elder’ is an admirable thing. It is not just about age, though often that is the most common usage. Being an elder is to be someone who others trust in, someone who brings safety and security. Elders are needed in every society, in every organization and culture. I will be… Read More The Danger of ‘Elders for Life’
The new year is now nine weeks old. I have been in India the past five weeks, and soon on my way to Kathmandu, Nepal. It has been so good to return again to the nation I first came to almost 43 years ago. I was 23 then. Because of my love for India and… Read More How are you experiencing freshness in this new year of 2025?
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