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Tag Archives: heart
A Necessary Resolution: Better Health
Thought for the Week Many New Year’s Resolutions are pie-in-the-sky (for diet resolution-ists, make that celery-sticks-in-the-sky); they’re doomed because they’re viewed as niceties, not necessities. But health, the number one resolution subject, is a necessity. Why? Because we’re complex creatures, … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir
Tagged blood pressure, exercise, health, heart, injury, New Year's, resolutions, thought for the week
45 Comments
Does God Answer?
God rarely tells me what he’s doing. But he’s always more than willing to show me what he wants me to do. Some years back I landed an invitation-only position in a CBS workshop for up-and-coming comedy writers. Was I … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Humor, Memoir, Religion/Faith
Tagged answers, discipleship, funny, God, heart, prayer
51 Comments
Somebody to Love
“Love is transformative. It turns whatever it touches into a channel specifically designed to get everyone else within reach as wet as possible. ‘Love’ that doesn’t do that isn’t really love.” ~Somebody to Love (below) My Featured Blogger this week … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Writing
Tagged blogger, blogging, featured, heart, human, journey, untamed
6 Comments
The Spirit of Christmas
May the spirit of Christmas the yearning to give inhabit your heart for as long as you live “Freely you have received. Freely give.” ~Matthew 10:8
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged Christmas, giving, heart, Jesus, love, Matthew 10:8, spirit
33 Comments
The Queen of Soul
Titles and accolades are often little more than hype. Not hers. I was honored to meet Aretha Franklin decades ago when my band did an ABC special with her. Like many artists, she was an introvert, with a shy smile … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Popular Culture & Entertainment
Tagged Aretha Franklin, genius, heart, music, power, siinging, soul
18 Comments
You
Swedish diplomat, economist and author Dag Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death in 1961. “It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us.”
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged Dag Hammarskjold, fate, God, heart, love, purpose
7 Comments
The Wild Places
Go and worship in the wild places the un-found-out places the forest that has never echoed with human voice the desert that offers no easy welcome or your own heart
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged beauty, God, heart, human, nature, worship
20 Comments
Batter My Heart
As a teenager, I stumbled upon the poet, John Donne, a contemporary of Shakespeare, and instantly identified with his passions, longings, and failings (“no man is an island…”). I still do. Yesterday, thanks to a smart, soulful teenager who blogs … Continue reading
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Poetry, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged God, heart, holy, John Donne, passion, sonnet
16 Comments
Where Your Treasure is…
Have a blessed week eternity.
Posted in For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged blessed, eternity, heart, heaven, Jesus, Matthew 6:21, treasure
9 Comments
Deep in December
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” ~Mother Teresa “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, For Pastors and Teachers, Quips and Quotes, Religion/Faith
Tagged C.S. Lewis, empathy, heart, hurt, Mother Teresa, suffering
30 Comments