Prayer at Eastertime Read More »
Use the schema explained above:  Tell God about the situation, listen to God and scripture, dialogue with God as you reflect. Step 1 Jesus, you were the ultimate victim of scapegoating. According to the High Priest, one person must die for the sake of the nation.  He was unknowingly being prophetic because you, one, Holy,…
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When I Don’t Know How to Pray Read More »
Use the schema explained above:  Tell God about the situation, listen to God and scripture, dialogue with God as you reflect. Step 1 Lord, I am finding it difficult to pray today. St Paul said, the Holy Spirit prays for us when we are unable. Today,  I am going to use the Lord’s Prayer as
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God, so near and yet so far Read More »
Use the schema explained above:  Tell God about the situation, listen to God and scripture, dialogue with God as you reflect. Step 1: Talk to God Dear God, the heavens declare your glory.  Who, but You, could have created all that we see?  You are Other.  We say Hallowed Be Thy Name. Do we say
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Prayer when feeling disjointed, anxious Read More »
Use the schema explained above:  Tell God about the situation, listen to God and scripture, dialogue with God as you reflect. Step 1 Lord, you know my heart, you know when I sit and when I stand.  Right now I am anxious but I really do not know why.  Undifferentiated anxiety.  I just don’t feel
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Prayer with a scary diagnosis Read More »
Use the schema explained above:  Tell God about the situation, listen to God and scripture, dialogue with God as you reflect. Step 1 Lord, I have just received a serious diagnosis. It has shaken me.  I would love to know how long I have, but the doctor, understandably, is not going there yet.  What am
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Prayers when others are ill Read More »
Use the schema explained above:  Tell God about the situation, listen to God and scripture, dialogue with God as you reflect. Step One, Lord, we do not understand life and death, except that we know they both happen.  I more friends and relatives who suffer illness as they and I get older.  Life seems more
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Spirituality grows naturally, organically and profits from bumps along the road Read More »
Here is a take on natural, organic spiritual growth. Spirituality grows naturally, organically and profits from bumps along the road. If existentialist philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard is to be believed, self-reflection matures over time. In the first stirrings, everything is concrete, exciting and disconnected, but it is happening ͞outside ourselves.͟ This external environment does not speak; it
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Quarterly results are in. Fantastic.  Share price moving in the right direction.  Board happy; Analysts impressed.  It feels like everything is a well oiled machine.  It has not always been this way.  But I am really delighted by what is happening.  We have a good team. We have had few defections. There are few client
When I am tempted to believe everything depends on me Read More »
The feedback that I receive, Lord, is that I do too much myself; I micromanage; and I do not exhibit enough trust in my colleagues.  I fear that my delegation is incomplete.  Would you help me feel safe in letting others figure out their own processes after I have identified the outcome and the appropriate
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Sad, Depressed, Overwhelmed Read More »
I feel overwhelmed.  Nothing seems to be working. I am not happy with anything: results, colleagues, my own performance.   How did I get into this funk?  I have always been confident, relatively happy and together.  But now I do not feel very strong, very effective, or put together.  Where do I go from here?  How
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