For the past four weeks, we’ve examined “difficult people” in our lives. We are trying to discern how best to navigate those relationships because, frankly, they are inevitable. I hope you found some practical ways to deal with these relationships anchored in the...
Morning Meditation: Revenge I could bank on my phone ringing about 8:30 am 3x a week as a colleague friend of mine was in the middle of a huge mess with a toxic employee. They were trying to figure out how to terminate the staff person because he simply was not doing...
Morning Meditation: Empathy It was supposed to be a nice dinner: good people (they all went to the same church), good conversation. No drama. But before the evening could be called a success, an uninvited guest arrived. Her reputation preceded her! She was the town...
Morning Meditation: Empathy It was the weirdest thing. We were inseparable. Sixth-grade BFF’s that did everything together. Back in the dark ages, sixth grade was still a part of elementary school so the three of us, we were “it” – the “in crowd,” the...
Advent Meditations “Forgiveness” Years ago, I served on a very large staff, and one thing we’d do to build community would be to go out to eat together every week after a staff meeting. Off we’d go, sporting our church staff apparel. The lunches became...
