Success is a Collision of Events

From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer Researcher Frans Johansson codified this mysterious idea that every success starts with a “click moment” – a collision of people and ideas and circumstances that creates your one small advantage. I like to think that […]

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The Destination

From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill Decisions big and small are portions of our life of pilgrimage, but they are not the destination. Life with God is the destination.

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For Getting Stuck

From “Shine Your Light: 77 Blessings to Clear Your Energy and Claim Your God-Given Calling” by Kate King Sometimes, I wonder if I need to get stuck Get stuck in my own head Or in a certain place It is almost as if I need The stuckness at times I look at this Block in

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Divided no more

From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish act – it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift

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Stillness

From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown There is a difference between feeling the stillness that we experience outside in nature and surrendering to the stillness within. Quieting our hearts and minds is far more challenging than we might think. To observe the serenity of a

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A Strange Inner Freedom

From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird Discernment reveals new priorities, directions, and gifts from God. We come to realize that what previously seemed so important in our lives, loses its power over us. Our desire to be successful, well liked, and influential

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