living in a creative tension

From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer If we are to live our lives fully and well, we must learn to embrace the opposites, to live in a creative tension between our limits and our potentials. We must honor our limitations in ways that do not distort

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an all pervasive aliveness

From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown There is the rest of detachment and withdrawal when the spirit moves into the depths of the region of the Great Silence…Here the Presence of God is sensed as an all pervasive aliveness which materializes into the concreteness of

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Signposts

From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird Small, seemingly insignificant events, ideas, and life circumstances can become occasions to discern God’s will and calling in your life. Both inner and outer events and circumstances can be read and interpreted as signposts leading to

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Do I Belong Here?

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Aside from hijacking people’s abilities, stereotypes also do damage by making people feel they don’t belong. Many minorities drop out of college and many women drop out of math and science because they just don’t feel they fit in. To find out how

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when you look at innovation from the long-zoom perspective, competition turns out to be less central to the history of good ideas than we generally think

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson The pattern of “competition” is an excellent case in point. Every economics textbook will tell you that competition between rival firms leads to innovation in their products and services. But when you look at innovation from the long-zoom perspective, competition turns

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“A Fool for Thee”

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner OH LORD, THE coolness of the river’s touch! The way it mirrored back the clouds as if I bathed in sky. I waded out to where the water reached my neck, my beard outspread, my garments floating free. I let my hands

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