Depending on our memory for remembering important things is a pretty lousy strategy. Especially as we get older. One of the most important areas involves the growth of our inner life. This growth happens through the decades of our time here on earth. For many of us, our primary emphasis throughout life is about events… Read More The Inner Journey: Benefits of Keeping a Journal
2050 is not far away. Only twenty six years from now. I’ll be 91 years old, and hopefully still kicking. As I write this today, there is a global outage of some internet systems causing over 5,000 flights to be cancelled. In Bangladesh over 100 have died in a series of protests over university enrollment… Read More The World in 2050: Finding Hope in the Future Amidst Present Struggles
Last week I was on my daily walk in the neighborhood, always an interesting balance between getting needed ‘steps in’ for exercise and also being attentive to the life around me. As I went over a hill I noticed written in large chalk letters, ‘You Matter‘. It is summer school holidays where I am at… Read More The Significance of ‘You Matter’ in History: A Reflection
How would Christian history be different if the Apostle Paul had traveled on the trade routes (the ‘Silk Roads’) to the East into the Persian Empire rather than stayed within the Roman Empire and ended his life in Rome? What if Paul, with all his gifts and abilities, had been not only the ‘Apostle to… Read More Unveiling Alternate History: Apostle Paul in the East
There can be chronic physical struggles that many of us face in our bodies. Whether pain of various degrees or fatigue that sometimes just can’t be located or figured out. When I had long covid in 2020-2021, the fatigue was unrelenting, the worst I had experienced since having tuberculosis in Delhi, India in 1988. My… Read More Transforming Frustration and Disappointments: Lessons from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are so many kinds of transitions in our lives. Sometimes we may need to stay in a situation for many years before transition happens. Sometimes it is best to leave, especially if a place or person has become unsafe and toxic to your well being. Whatever the nature of the transition, however easy or… Read More Navigating Life’s Changes: The Role of a Transition Coach
Sometimes there are seasons when the need to express lament for personal or group pain seems even more acute. In recent weeks, our mission agency endured the worst accident in its history, with eleven key leaders killed in Tanzania. One of them we had known quite closely for about thirty years. Others were known to… Read More Do you feel at times like broken pieces? Lament is expressed in different ways
What is the condition of your ‘heart’ starting 2024? For me, my actual physical heart needed a check. In 2021 during a year long struggle with ‘long covid’, my doctor recommended I do an echocardiogram. This was the first time in my life for that, and as the test went on and the technician looked… Read More What is the condition of your ‘heart’ starting 2024?
A phrase has been coming to my mind for 2024 as this year draws rapidly to an end: Stay in your lane. It may just be advice for me, but perhaps it might resonate for you. Most of us have experienced the irritation or even terror of being behind or near or opposite another driver… Read More Stay in your lane in 2024
Two photos, before and after. The first is of a tree in our yard and the glories of the red leaves. The beauty of the fall colors in the Pacific Northwest in the USA are stunning. Reds, oranges, greens, yellows abound for several weeks in a feast of the splendor of life and creation. But… Read More What leaves are falling in your life?
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