When you want something done, and it is very difficult or seems impossible, here are five approaches that can help. They work for physical activity but also for improving interpersonal skills and many other types of objectives. Dream about it. Envision the end in your mind, awake or asleep. Feel yourself mentally going through the steps to get there. “Sleep on it” actually does help you learn, by letting your brain play with this envisioning the end state while disabling…..
Two weeks ago my post was about initial training in an attempt to return to fitness after having become unfit. However that is not really the beginning of this journey. The beginning was the end of the tyranny of a chronic injury. It started with a injection to relieve the pain of a pinched nerve I’d been struggling with for years without knowing its cause. Prior to that I felt like I was on a diving board of unyielding rock,…..
The rain slowed but the road was still covered with water. Visibility cleared, and the driver put the cruise control back on, hoping to maintain the 70 MPH speed limit on the rural road. A long appreciative glance the foothills of her youth let the wheel get off onto a rock shoulder. The many miles behind her left the tires bald. The noise drawing attention back, the driver overcorrected and sent the car into a spin. Soon it was going…..
Girl Day is February 27, a day set aside to encourage girls interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). I had to correct the “T,” at first I typed theology. It’s been a while since theology would have generally fit on that list …hundreds of years. It fits for me in that girls in theology are still rare. My own interest in STEM started when Bell Labs gathered kids from all over Dallas and put on a show for us — maybe…..
How is that shoveling going? If you are viewing this you likely have at least stopped for something warm to drink. The snow that snuck in under the coat and into your socks is starting to melt and get you wet… Times like this aren’t that different for us than they were for Roger Williams. Especially if the power is out. Except, instead of waiting for the power to return, he had to wait for spring. Or he could go find…..
This is supposed to be a quiet week between Christmas and a New Year. There are these two guys duking it out in my head — two of my favorites in this world. And they seem to disagree. Both are Christian men of God, their agreements are more significant than their disagreements: they both accept Christ as one born to a virgin Mary, who died for our sins, and who rose again to become our living Savior. Most of their disagreements I…..
After finishing the 2015 Boston marathon, Gianclaudio realized his ID was gone and, not speaking English, he could not find his way to his people or his hotel. Being clever, he went for the the airport directly, but he was taken for by many homeless or worse. The story of Gianclaudio P. Marengo’s survival has a lucky ending: he was recognized for the civilized but lost Italian he was and returned to people he knew by an officer who said…..
It goes without saying, if you have a role to play in getting people out of trouble, just go do it. The minutes will be stretched to hours and you will not be able to move fast enough…and you will not be needing this note. That is not most people much of the time. For most there are still three things they can do. 1. Fight. Channel aggression into something useful, or at least physical. My daughter was disturbed not…..
Last November, the seminarian student originally from Romania called Lumi came and told us her story. If you have not heard Lumi, you can listen here: Lumi She left us with an assignment—to figure out how to tell our own stories. Lumi is scheduled to return in April—what will she find? It is my hope she will find us preparing feverishly to tell our stories — first in church to edify each other, then outside. Toward that end I invite you to…..