Before Christmas

Administrator — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:20:23 +0100

Before Christmas

Is it me or am I the only one who says every year, we’re going to cut back, simplify, and have a family Christmas that focuses on the real reason for the season- Jesus? But every year, and I mean, every year, the advertisements beckon, the children plead (well they used to!), the pressure to meet extended family obligations grows, and it just seems so much easier to indulge our wants, whims and cave in under the pressures. Overspending, overeating, materialism, and bu...

ISLAM AND SEPTEMBER 11th.

Administrator — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:43:38 +0100

I was in New York and I know you know where you were because none of us have forgotten where we were or what we were doing ten years ago on September 11, 2001. when Islam captured world’s attention through the violent terrorist attack.

As we reflect...

St. Patrick of Ireland

Administrator — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:44:53 +0100

Patrick.

His name conjures up images of leprechauns, shamrocks, green beer and all things Irish. But the truth is most people have no idea who St. Patrick was and why we celebrate the day that bares his name. And it all started sometime toward the end of the fourth or beginning of the fifth century not with leprechauns or shamrocks but with…pirates!

CHRISTMAS IS COMING!

Administrator — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:06:07 +0100

Not long ago I was stuck on an airplane, again. This time it started out so promising, "Good news folks," the captain said, "we're away from the gate on time." But then the inevitable, "The bad news is we are 71st in line for take off." A low groan filled the cabin as the pilot taxied us to the waiting area (penalty box) and shut off the engines. The crew did their best to make the weather, air traffic control, diverted flights delay as bearable as possible. But three hours lat...

COACHING FOR A STRONG FINISH

Administrator — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:00:20 +0100

This morning I drove by an unfinished construction project. An abandoned commercial building that now stands as a lasting monument to a vision that has died or at least very significantly delayed. It died or was delayed despite obviously significant money, labor and time had been invested, none-the-less something happened that stopped the construction.

Why do projects fail to be completed? There could be a number of reasons. There could have been a failure to raise adequate fu...

WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO FOR YOU?

Administrator — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:59:11 +0100

First the good news: today two different leaders asked me to become their coach. Now the bad news: neither of them could tell me exactly what it was they wanted me to do for them. Not one of these two could tell me what their goal was or in what they wanted to be coached. They could not answer the simple question, “What do you want me to do for you?” This was astounding. When we break it down to it’s most fundamental level, coaching is about helping someone else become more effecti...

JetBlue

Administrator — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:45:04 +0100

I spend a lot of time traveling.

Mostly by air.

So I read with interest the news article about the flight attendant who had had all he could take: apparently a JetBlue flight attendant flipped out after an argument with an agitated traveler last Monday, cussed the passenger out over the intercom, stole a beverage from the plane’s galley and made a grand exit down the emergency slide at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport. He has now been charged with multiple felonies...

Time Crunch

Administrator — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:00:00 +0100

Where is all the leisure time they said we would have if we bought their gizmos? You know what Im talking about. All those ways our lives would be easier, simpler and more care free. Has it worked for you? Do you have more ‘free time’ on your hands than you did five or ten years ago? Has all the stuff made our lives better? Has all the busyness made us closer to each other?

I asked a group of young families if they were more or less stressed these days than they were five y...

Mystery

Administrator — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:19:43 +0100

So I don't have all the answers or many answers for that matter. I just don't know. I do not know why things happen the way they do or how things end up in the shape which they do. I especially don't know all there is to know about people, the universe and God. I suppose if I did know everything about people I'd be truly disappointed, the universe...bored and God well...he certainly wouldn't be God...anymore.

I am at a loss at being able to completely understand t...

Pain

Administrator — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:00:00 +0100

No doubt you are familiar with this topic...pain. It is our constant companion in life, our greatest teacher, the shaper of our heart, soul, mind, character, integrity and love. Pain forms and molds. It prunes, removes and orients. It also breaks up hardened places and fertilizes dead places. Pain gives, believe it or not, far more then it takes away. I say this because, what else can really make the kind of difference in our lives like pain? Nothing.

In short, th...

Patrick

Administrator — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Unabashedly I love Patrick the Patron Saint of Ireland.

In "A Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus," Patrick wrote: The Confession of Saint Patrick.

I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop.
I am certain in my heart that "all that I am," I have received from God.
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger for the love of God.
He himself testifies that this is so.
I never would...

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