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March 2021

March 18, 2021

Reflections on The Happenings of a Year

It has been a full year since the Coronavirus pandemic manifested in full and a...

March 16, 2021

Why We are Poor and Dangerous Avengers

Back in Old Testament times, the ancient Israelites set up cities to protect those who...

March 11, 2021

Losing Our Ability to Perceive

It is no real secret that the world is going bonkers. Not exactly a hot...

March 09, 2021

Vats and Storehouses: The Key to Abundance and Content

I am currently working on a commentary of The Book of Proverbs for thebiblesays.com and...

March 05, 2021

How Uncertainty Invites Us Into Clarity

My friend recently introduced me to The Twilight Zone. The original ones from the early...

March 02, 2021

Choosing Gratitude When You Don’t Feel Like It

We often talk about gratitude as a choice, but is it really? A few days...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

When to Forfeit and When to Fight

There are two kinds of people in the world - those who give up too...

February 23, 2021

Three Kinds of Leaders

In our work with The Crossroad, we have discovered that people have very diverse ideas of...

February 18, 2021

How to Become the Chooser

There is a great tension in every human soul between what happens to us and...

February 16, 2021

Inspecting My Lens, Questioning My Perspective

Every single day, I wake up with a set of metaphorical goggles over my eyes....

February 11, 2021

The Key to Sharing True Love

Valentine’s Day is approaching and it has me thinking about the nature of true love....

February 09, 2021

How Things that Affect Me Impact The Way I Affect Things

I realize the title is a mouthful, so you have either decoded it or are...

February 04, 2021

The Danger of Divergent Visions in the Stories We Tell

Kylie and I are currently watching a show, which shall remain nameless, and it has...

February 02, 2021

What Groundhog Day Has to Say About Patterns and Hope

Today is Groundhog Day. The one day a year Americans put their jovial hope in...

January 2021

January 28, 2021

The Spectrum of Intentionality

Kylie and I work as Leadership Coaches with The Crossroad. And one of the terms we...

January 26, 2021

The Truth Behind Our Creative Expressions

As a writer, I generally consider myself a creative person. I think all of us...

January 21, 2021

Progressing Through Conflict Without Destroying One Another

Conflict is one of the most challenging of human enterprises. It happens when expectations are...

January 19, 2021

Why Morals Are Not Enough

American society is in a right-and-wrong tug-o-war. We are wrestling with one another. We are...

January 14, 2021

Long Live The Dream

It has been nearly sixty years since Martin Luther King Jr. famously declared “I have...

January 12, 2021

The Motivation of An Imagined Future

I don’t really like time travel movies. It feels like they don’t really work through...

January 07, 2021

Why More Really is the Answer

More gets a bad wrap. People like me are always writing and raving about the...

January 05, 2021

Our Unjust System of Weights and Measures

We often talk about reality TV shows as “guilty pleasures”. I must confess there are...

December 2020

December 31, 2020

My Favorite Day of the Year

Although there is very little to it, as far as “holidays” go, my favorite day...

December 29, 2020

The Power and Place of Forgiveness

There is a subtle rhythm to the way we live. A pattern of ups and...

December 24, 2020

Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum

Little Drummer Boy is one of the most recognizable Christmas songs in modern culture. It...

December 22, 2020

Confused and Frustrated

What a year it has been. What a life we live. What a world. One...

December 17, 2020

What is an Enemy?

We toss the word around. We know it when we see it. But what exactly...

December 15, 2020

Mission or Money

So, let’s be honest. We are all holding onto a secret hope. We want to...

December 10, 2020

The Breakdown Between What We Profess to Value and What We Actually Do

Conventional wisdom goes something like this: if your actions don’t match what you profess to...

December 08, 2020

Where Do My Feelings Come From?

Like most of you, I’ve rarely questioned where my feelings come from. Does it really...