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Facing The Primitive – Our Reptilian Brain
The angry surgeon needs to learn methods of keeping his or her cognitive thinking in tact. The leader prone to volatility needs to learn the source of this explosiveness in order to head it off early. And the rest of… Continue reading
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What Changes Us
I know very few people who accomplish life change by themselves. One of two things needs to happen. Either they need long-term help from a counselor, or they need to experience a traumatic event like Larry King went through. New… Continue reading
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Want & Need
And this is the great gift we got to unwrap again yesterday. It is the joy of love – the chance to enter 2007 with a renewed sense gratitude for the gift that comes every moment of the day -… Continue reading
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God’s Grace
The world will always need God’s grace. And it will always be available for anyone wise enough to open their hearts to receive it. One day, I was speaking with Dr. Patout Burns, a professor of mine at Vanderbilt Divinity… Continue reading
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Guest Meditation – the Beloved
Beloved, the seeds of love planted today become the hands of love tomorrow. What we need is here now, and holds the promise of all that could be. In the clatter of the Season, through the pressure of staffing limitations… Continue reading
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The Stories That Change Our Lives
Caregivers transform the lives of all they encounter. Love comes to fill the dark hole of another’s need. Without it, our lives are emptied of meaning. With it, our lives – yours and mine – are redeemed. Continue reading
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Guest Reflection – Holiday Humor
I have reluctantly concluded that no matter how clever, amusing or seasonally appropriate, ringing cell phones are mostly just annoying. Continue reading
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The Private Christmas
Hope runs high at Christmas. So does grief. In your private Christmas, I wish you both. Christ was not born to wipe away all our tears but to be present for us when we shed them. What I don’t wish… Continue reading
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Blessing Way
Our very life depends upon our ability to reach beyond the narrow nature of ourselves to touch the hem of God. When we do so (or when we at least strive to do so) we have brushed the edge of… Continue reading
Journal of Sacred Work 