March 2016

Curiosity and Intellect

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.’ …Socrates” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] It was not her best day, thanks to me. Nor, frankly, was it one of mine. It was 1958, my Junior year of high school, in a small semi-rural western Oregon town. Ultimately there were 63 students in my graduating class. Most […]

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Renewal in the Social Dimension of Life

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Alone…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …High on a hill or tall mountain. This has been a place of significant renewal to me in the 62 years of my life. I still remember the joy of being an adolescent, alone high on the hill overlooking my hometown of Whittier, California. I could see my

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Whole-Life Heroes

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Heroes…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …at least the men and women I consider heroes, come in all sizes, capacities and conditions. Whether it’s imaginative, artistically created action figures of our comic book and/or movie heroes, or real time, living, breathing, eye-blinking heroes…heroes do come in all shapes, sizes and ages. One of my

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Your Foundational Family

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Family…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] We all have one, but not all illicit warm, fuzzy memories. Sometimes families can be difficult. Estranged – or just plain strange! What is it about this dimension that can be so difficult and yet so foundational to every other aspect of our lives? You were born into

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The Financial Dimension of the Circle of Life

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”We were stuck.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] $60,000 in student debt and newly married, I was in seminary and my wife was teaching. My car broke down and I needed a root canal. There was no money in the bank and no plan. We were toast. We were afraid! We were mastered by

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