During the week of Thanksgiving, you will have the opportunity to hear from five guest bloggers. They will be sharing about reflections related to the holiday season. Today’s guest post comes from Janna Moss. At four years old, Janna wanted to be a cowgirl. She is now a corporate communications consultant, but she owns two […]
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Fifth graders have a few awkward moments. Remember in gym class the agony of picking teams. We hoped we make the cut before the last pick. Another moment came at the end of the day. The whirlwind of leaving school wreaked havoc. You could see one of your classmates with a stack of sealed envelopes.
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It began the first semester of college. I walked the campus coming face to face with deep seeded pain. My mind could recall hurtful words and the times I felt left out. Later after college, I had not reconciled the pain. Rather than dealing with truth, I began to believe the lies about myself. The
Contentment seems unnatural. You might point to every message that calls us to more money, success, and stuff. Comparison seems natural. The competitive bent of humanity sizes up each person rating ourselves against each other. Also, some of us have lean into over criticalness of ourselves and each other. At times, we ratchet up the
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How do we experience transformation? The last few months of year signal a time of evaluation. November causes us to look back at our lives in gratitude. December and January invite us to plan how we want to live next year differently. In a moment of reflection, you and I could make the list of
These five reads from this past week challenged, encouraged, and provided perspective for me. Check them out for yourself. The State of Joy by Jamie K.A. Smith Jamie K.A. Smith speaks of the missing aspect of joy in society. He outlines what blocks joy in our lives and moves to how to find joy. 3
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My wife and I started watching the second season of Parenthood. Zeke Braverman, the patriarch of the family and played by Craig T. Nelson, has a slight change of heart. The boisterous and confrontational man becomes more aware of his family’s reaction to him. In the middle of a conversation which could escalate, he stops
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How do you fill space in your life? When a spot in our schedule opens up, we might add another event. A moment of silence ceases by adding music or podcast. Rather than sitting still, we pick up something to check or read. I wonder if many of us are programmed to fill the spaces.
How do you react to someone saying to you, “Can we talk?” Those three words bring our minds to wonder what we might have said or done. That questions usually signals for us a critique. It either makes aware of something we didn’t see or confirms a reality we already see. Negative words seem louder. You
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You tell yourself a story. We view our situations in chapters; relationships with others as characters; struggles as conflicts. You and I have an internal dialogue where we interpret our lives. The stories we tell ourselves affects our reactions. The other day, I began to tell myself a story. I assigned the characters motives and
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