Scribe on September 28th, 2008

Put down your feng shui manuals for a moment and let’s not think about the physical space that we make for God/Worship/Meditation in our lives (that’s a whole other homily about what I have here!) Think about the motions of our life. Consider the poise of your prayer. And look (in your mind’s eye, just ...

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Scribe on September 8th, 2008

This is a prayer from the website Beliefnet, for sobriety. Besides the theme and message of the prayer, and how utterly concise it is, I also liked the beautiful walking cadence of the words. I’ve kept the words original to the prayer found here, and added in “breathing points” that I would use with this ...

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Scribe on June 2nd, 2008

In my life as a business coach, supervisor and leader, I’ve used a simple plan for helping people going through the ubiquitous changes in their business life: If the new thing works, keep doing it. If it doesn’t work (or stops working!) then do something else. That’s basically a Harvard MBA for you in once ...

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Many church denomination use the book of Psalms as part of their worship experience, and even more people use the Psalms as part of their daily spiritual practice. But what do they DO with this unusual set of song lyrics that run the gamut from hate, anger, and retribution (the “Please God – Squash My ...

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Scribe on May 27th, 2008

-I am not now and never will be a Neat and Tidy person. Things go so badly unkempt while I was taking a Chemo Sabbatical, that I saw clients in my house at the dining room table, rather than face the embarrassment of going up to my office that was an inch deep in dust, ...

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