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It's a new dawn.

This is my confession...

Fear in itself is not dangerous. But refusing to feel it definitely is.

Addressing the nonsense in the world must begin with addressing the nonsense in ourselves—or it doesn't begin at all.

When I am overwhelmed, "on a scale of 1 to 10, I’m feeling my emotions at about a 10, I'm paying attention to them at about a 5, and I...

“Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your...

WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW Do not despise the sinking dread Do not turn away from that hollow ache To not know is to be human. Do not hate the...

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." — Albert Einstein Typically, when I talk with leaders...

"As leaders, we've been taught to operate within a very narrow band of awareness. On any given day, most of who we are is largely absent...

"Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others." — John Maxwell The Great Resignation...

FIND ME My eyes rise to reveal these wet cheeks glowing under the pale cast of the winter moon Skyward, I lift up my cry, a frail lament,...

"Fear has gained a big foothold in the lives of men, precisely because men deny fear and won't deal with it." — Richard Rohr Whenever we...

“Stillness…makes space for gratitude and wonder.” — Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key Gratitude is good for you. By now I bet you’ve...

“Now with God’s help, I shall become myself.” — Søren Kierkegaard When you come into this life, the world starts making demands on you,...

Couple of firsts for me this week to let you know about: 1. I started learning how to use InDesign, Adobe's desktop publishing software,...

"You should act more responsibly, God, with all that gorgeousness you possess." — Mira One of the most challenging paradoxes about God is...

"Surely everything He has made must be perfect." — St. Francis We misunderstand God’s creative process in us. We think the work of...

“Art is the conversation between lovers. Art offers an opening for the heart. True art makes the divine silence in the soul break into...

“Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.” - 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 I love...

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of...

“Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.” — Rabia The great challenge of prayer is that it only works when...

CONSIDER THE SKY Where do you travel hidden in shadow, your black waves in ecstasy, churning under the broad, undulant wings of Seraphim...

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery...

“Of all deceivers fear most yourself!” – Søren Kierkegaard As fictional leaders go, nobody beats Michael Scott for awkward. In the...

“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your...

“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that...

We have a duty to befriend Those aspects of obedience That stand outside of our house And shout to our reason “O please, O please, Come...

THE END TIMES Stretch out your hands Here, at the bleeding edge Here, at the trembling cusp of everything Bless the bright canyon into...

"Grace, she takes the blame, she covers the shame, removes the stain." — U2 I do a lot of work in churches and faith-based NPOs. In both...

“Each has within him a secret of the Divinity; each is growing towards the revelation of that secret to himself, and so to the full...

I took a walk with God yesterday. I’ve had this nagging question in my heart, and I wanted to get to the bottom of it: Why do I have this...

WHAT IT’S LIKE (6th of January 2021, a Wednesday) Here is what it’s like: You’re standing on the cliff’s edge over a deep dry canyon of...

ONLY WONDER KNOWS You’ll never really know anything until you’ve listened to the worship of glaciers or for long quiet days bent your ear...

"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The Big art is our life." — M.C. Richards When back country hiking through unfamiliar...

“It is by learning the questions slowly and attentively that we are drawn into the depth of things, and, frankly, the sadness of things,...

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” (Matthew 5:9) The Greek word for “peacemakers” in the quote from...

“Each man has only one genuine vocation—to find the way to himself....His task is to discover his own destiny—not an arbitrary one—and to...

“Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.”...

WILL YOU? I came to the edge beyond the yowling cities of the Earth beyond the yearning harbor of Círden beyond the lost shores of...

INTERSTITIAL SLIPSTREAM I seek you in the maelstrom of the mundane world my finger on the pulse of that eternal thread that lives between...

“Sensemaking…refers to how we structure the unknown so as to be able to act in it. Sensemaking involves coming up with a plausible...

"The self that God consistently loves is not my prettied-up pretend self but my actual self—the real me. But, master of delusion that I...

“The heart has to shed the distractions that keep it from knowing the truth about itself… you won't be what you are until you stop...

LET THERE BE Let there be light and agents of light you and me with eyes wide open seeing as we’re meant to things as they are Let us...

“To be nobody but yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest...

What the world needs now is the courage to listen.

How do you live well when "Normal" isn't an option anymore?

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Nothing should go back to normal. Normal wasn’t working. If we go back to the way things were, we will have lost the lesson. May we rise...

“As global waves of grief wash over us, we are finally waking up to the understanding that tears speak louder than words—they are not...