It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On The Shortness of Life […]
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Chicken Soup for the Covid-19 Soul: Collective Wisdom and Collateral Beauty 2
This series is a collection of the best advice I’ve found to help navigate this season and the beautiful moments that are giving joy along the way. Seth Godin’s perspective on life is always inspiring and one of his big, beautiful drivers in life is generosity. He was recently on The Moment with Brian Koppelman and his […]
Take a Moment Monday: Imperfect Progress
There is a beautiful thing called Imperfect Progress. It comes when we take slow steps of progress wrapped in grace. Lysa TerKeurst I don’t know about you, but there are some things I need to be perfect and others I don’t. So many times, I’ve watched YouTube videos of people folding fitted sheets and […]
Take a Moment Monday: Have Courage
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. Maya Angelou Bryce Courtenay was certainly onto something when he wrote The Power of One. There’s something significant about someone having a vision for their life and sticking to it. There’s power in a story […]
Take a Moment Mondays: Do Something You Love
Living Eulogy she danced. she sang. she took. she gave. she loved. she created. she dissented. she enlivened. she saw. she grew. she sweated. she changed. she learned. she laughed. she shed her skin. she bled on the pages of her days, she walked through walls, she lived with intention. Mary […]
Take a Moment Monday: Your Creative Best
Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life. Galatians 6:4-5 (The Message) I don’t […]
Delicious Ambiguity
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. Gilda Radner I’ve begun 2018 in a new mood. It’s a mood of ease, slowing down, and setting intentions before rushing into making rash New Year resolutions. On […]
Chapter Three–The Infinite Power of Showing Up
A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt […]
Write Around the World: It’s Cold Out There
We can’t have moral obligations to every single person in this world. We have moral obligations to those who we come up against, who enter into our moral space, so to speak. That means neighbors, people we deal with, and so on. Alexander McCall Smith It’s cold out here. In fact, it’s freezing. I can […]