Lose Your Love When You Say Mine
Love is a rose but you better not pick it It only grows when it’s on the vine. A handful of thorns and you’ll know you’ve missed it You lose your love when you say the word “mine”. –Neil Young,...
View ArticleInheriting Eternal Life
Just walking along the road. Minding his own business. And a young man walks up to him. “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Something must have been bothering him. What was it? An...
View ArticleGiving In Order To Receive
I have been on Twitter almost since it began. More than 3,600 people follow me. Many of those 3.600 follow me so that I will follow them back. Some “game” the system and have maybe 100,000 followers....
View ArticleEnergy Is a Foundation for Leadership
A second-rate night club lounge singer from Las Vegas witnesses a mob crime, runs away, and hides in a convent disguised as a nun. She is persuaded to become the choir director, rocks the church, and...
View ArticleGratitude is Attitude
Tomorrow is a US national holiday–Thanksgiving. It is national “go home to be with family” day. Or in my case, go to the Chicago ‘burbs to be with family. We have a somewhat romanticized recollection...
View ArticleWhat Have The Years Wrought With You
I knew a woman who was kind and funny. She got a job as a police dispatcher. Within a couple of years she became negative, cynical, joyless. She dealt daily with criminals, people with stories about...
View ArticleGive It All Away
“You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” Mark 10 Giving. ‘Tis the season. The Magi were what passed in...
View ArticleTalk Less and Listen More
For those of you who get up to read these essays by 7 am EST, I’m late. Plane was delayed and I got home at 1 am. Here I am. Five hours of sleep. Nothing prepared. Nothing on my mind. But I try to...
View ArticleWhat If We Lived Everyone Had A Soul
Yesterday I was a little philosophical. But not really if you digest the thought that we are all souls that have a physical body. What if we took care of our souls like we took care of our bodies? For...
View ArticleWhen You Find Yourself In Complacency
So you wake up. Who knows what wakes you up. There you were happily asleep and Pow, there you are, wide awake. It happens in the middle of the night. It happens when you’re in an organization. You were...
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