Where is Happiness Found in Our Uncertain World

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If you’re looking to find more joy, delight, happiness or a bit of  bliss, you’re not alone. Never before have we seen more opposites to our basic happiness. These barriers to contentment leave us in panic, anxiety, misery, depression and overall discontent. Happiness starts with inner kindness we practice, yet… Read more »

Where’s Your Common Sense?

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We’ve all heard it spoken. He hasn’t got a lick o’ common sense. Or, she may be book smart, but without a tad of insight from common sense. We assumed common sense simply referred to “streetwise,” or practically clever with our workaround solutions to mundane problems. That was before we… Read more »

An Epiphany Keeps Christmas Grace Alive

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The hallmark of an epiphany is an awareness of interaction between God and humans, between humans and other humans. It’s love’s revelation and mercy beyond justice. Christmas and its holiday season is a majestic epiphany moment for new beginnings and a wheelhouse of revelations for fresh starts. Where might we… Read more »

Tone to Disagree Takes Humility

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He emerged unexpectedly in a brain based leadership grad course I taught. Like a jewel’s multiple hues glitter in flashes of sunlight his wit and wisdom became our glow. This grad student could easily have taught the course. Instead he taught our entire graduate community by his humble tone, how… Read more »

What if We Extended Holiday Grace?

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What if we could each carry the best bits of grace and happiness from our 2022 holiday into transforming conflicts into kindness and care for 2023? Imagine the agape eloquence and joy we’d both ingest and extend!

Christmas Grace in Conflicts or Celebrations

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Christmas and its holiday season is really our biggest opportunity for new beginnings and fresh starts. Think about it –  regardless of how we enter its play-fields, blessing awaits us. I like to think of this genesis as a mystical and lush garden cultivated to cultivate grace. An abundance of… Read more »

Christmas Adds Evidence of Grace in Action 

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We see divine grace in action when we experience its energy of love. Energy that feels dynamic, inspires interactivity, grips us personally, and harmonizes beyond sorrow. When we’re inspired to participate in what God is and does we accept and extend agape love. Grace is that agape-energy and light that… Read more »

Grace That’s Lived Needs a Healthy Motivation 

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As I reflect on the book,  Access Our Grace Mindset, I realize that we may be asking the wrong question. The future of grace (or unmerited mercy, love and favor) matters little if there are no recipients, who can see life wonder beyond war, environmental disasters and inequities. We can… Read more »

Do Assisted Living Facilities Rob Senior Autonomy?

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Over lunch with Arthur a longtime friend, I was saddened to hear how his adult children are plotting to sell his acreage and use the money to move him into a senior facility “to make his life easier.” No coincidence we shared lunch at his favorite spot on a rustic… Read more »