Good Morning, God A New Year, a New Day . . . we are given many opportunities to PAUSE and to RECONSIDER. This whole idea of pausing has been trying hard to get my attention and enlarge itself. Funny to…
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Continuing to Grow
Good Morning, God! My first walk in weeks! A persistent ear infection has left me VERY aware of my need to rebuild and recover. I know that moving . . . using the body . . . is part of…
Tagged with: Carol Dweck, Mindset
Posted in a hand up, choosing HARD, connecting, growing toward up, Growth Opportunities, Helpful Hards, Persistence, Personal Responsibilty, Perspective, the Growth Mindset
Posted in a hand up, choosing HARD, connecting, growing toward up, Growth Opportunities, Helpful Hards, Persistence, Personal Responsibilty, Perspective, the Growth Mindset
How about HOPE?
All of this makes me think about Hope. Vaclav Havel said “Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
Tagged with: hope, Keeping on, Meaning, persisting
Posted in Faith, Faithfulness, hope, Meaning, Persistence
Posted in Faith, Faithfulness, hope, Meaning, Persistence
Apple and Asking for Help
In fact, we are in a New Educational Paradigm of Heuristic Learning. Trial and Error . . . try this, try that and most of all keep on trying.
Tagged with: Apple, asking for help, complexity, heuristic learning, trial and error
Posted in complexity, connecting, humility, learning, Persistence, Prayer
Posted in complexity, connecting, humility, learning, Persistence, Prayer
Practicing the Art of Relabeling
Sigh. A cold dose of reality was splashed over me. It wasn’t that I didn’t “know” that — it was that I was choosing to ignore it. Hmm. That’s really easy to do, isn’t it, God. It’s so easy to see the shiny surface and forget all the work that has to go on beneath.
The Lion Dance and the Importance of Fun
Good Day, God! And a very good day it was — complete with a colorful and noisy Lion Dance at my Rotary lunch-time meeting. Noise is an important part of the dance — the idea being to scare away evil…
Tagged with: learning as inherently fun, Lion Dance, persistence
Posted in Endurance, Enjoyment, layer upon layer, learning, Persistence
Posted in Endurance, Enjoyment, layer upon layer, learning, Persistence
A Moment with God 