“Let’s not do that again!” creeps out when we’ve acted and failed. “On no, not again!” seeps out as a sigh or groan. Sometimes we’ve said these phrases to ourselves or at other times heard it from someone else. These remarks can lead to a reflection and review to examine ourselves and a revision. In …
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Can We Hear Ourselves Snore?
“I can’t hear you” publicizes the strengths of cell phone carrier setting. Another setting occurs when one family member suggests or says or screams, in an ascending flow from a stream to a storm of words, “You’re not listening!” Do we hear to reply or listen to understand? While we may say we hear the …
Find, Use and Shine
Peter, an early leader wrote to his community, “As each one has received a special gift …” 1 Peter 4: 10 (NASB) While no one is good at everything, each one of us is good at something. Over the decades, I have learned that I have the ability to communicate to others. From my family, …
Which?
“Order Or Chaos” provided the title and the theme yesterday. Today let’s look at three “W’s” — “what”, “so what”, and “now what”. This three part paradigm and process (by now obviously I am alliterative.) offers a way to choose to live responsibly rather than reactively. This three part paradigm and process has evolved and …
Order Versus Chaos
What drives us crazy. “Where is the ketchup?” “Where did you put that?” is a refrain often said to a husband or teenager. This is one form of chaos — mild ones depending on the person who said it or shouted it! Then another form of chaos occurs on the highway, erupting either in an …
Sun and smile
Payback or pay forward. The choice is ours. It is easy to react by payback — it called be called revenge or something similar. Laying on the horn after someone cuts in front is one form of payback. Blurting out an obscenity after a slight, real or imagined, is another form of payback. “We need …
Which one
Life is about choices. We have the power to make choices about life or … Just last night a news piece talked about new research on the long term negative effects of drinking soft drinks too much and too often. The movie “Supersize Me” also showed literally the negative effects of eating fast foods every …
Quick and slow
Quick and slow “Quick on the draw” and “slow on the speech” speak volumes and birth a range of events in life — from random and growing acts of violence to heart warming vignettes which cause a smile to grow on a face and warm a hardened heart. One day local and national news stations …
A stream of wishes and decisions
“May I be an enemy to no one and the friend of what abides eternally. May I never quarrel with those nearest me, and be reconciled quickly if I should. May I never plot evil against others, and if anyone plot evil against me, may I escape unharmed and without the need to hurt anyone …
Kind Words and Sticks and Stones
On the one hand a childhood saying “Sticks and bones may hurt my bones, but words will never hurt me” spouts a lie. On the other hand, “a kind word cheers a person up.” Proverbs 12: 25 niv Kinds words uttered softly and liltingly can unlock closed minds and soften hard hearts. In a fable …
