Blog Posts

  • Developing a Listening Heart

    I have a question. What is your response when someone expresses hurt feelings? Be honest. How do you react? Okay, think about different scenarios. What if someone tells you that you hurt them? How about if somebody else offended them? What if what hurt them wouldn’t hurt or offend you? Does that make a difference…

  • Embracing Change

    I don’t like change. Nope. Not really. I’ve mentioned before how I like to plan everything in advance and don’t appreciate when my plans don’t work out, but this time I want to talk about bigger change. I have discovered that I like status quo living. It might be difficult at times, but it is…

  • Brushing Up Our Ability to Serve

    I have used an electric toothbrush for many years. It’s a nice one and it beeps every time I’m supposed to change which quadrant of my mouth I’m brushing. It allows me to be fully lost in my thoughts while brushing. As a daydreamer this is the way I like to do things, haha! This…

  • Miracles NEVER Cease

    I have an interesting history with cars. Not cars, exactly, more like driving. When I first got my license I had an incident where I mistook the McDonald’s drive-thru lane divider for a speed bump and I got stuck. Like completely and utterly stuck. They had to close down the drive-thru and make a ramp…

  • Learning to Love Perceived Foes

    I’m going to admit something really bad here: I have been prone to prejudice during my life. I believe that I have made good progress in overcoming most of those prejudices as I have gotten older and listened to peoples’ experiences and feelings, although I recognize that I probably still fall short in some ways.…