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Winter Butterflies
Lovers don’t love because of the thanks they may get. Still, it’s a nice surprise when a note of appreciation comes floating into your life as unexpected as a butterfly in winter. -Erie Chapman Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Heroes
World leader or anonymous caregiver. Famous star or everyday person. There is not so much distance, or difference, among us in the challenges we face. The question is not how hard the problems are, but whether we find the courage… Continue reading
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Dragons
The reality of sacred work strikes hard in a caregiver’s encounter with the pain of others. Across America, a quiet group of charities deal with children who have been abused. It’s hard for the rest of us to see the… Continue reading
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Clothing Ourselves With Love
On the edge of a new year, we may rejoice in the gift of our humainity and the opportunity we have to be a carrier of God’s Love. We may revel in the chance we have to weave an even… Continue reading
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Guest Column – Hands
Take a moment to savor your hands – the sacred, storied tools of your heart and mind. What memories have created the crevasses and smooth plains of your landscape? What hopes and dreams are carried in the furrows and grip… Continue reading
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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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