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Is self-importance killing your soul?

“If your soul is unhealthy, you can’t help anyone.” Dallas Willard I am currently reading John Ortberg’s, Soul Keeping: Caring for the most important part of you. Somewhere along the line, John wrote a few sentences on how self-importance can kill the soul. These words had more impact on me then the entire book. Sometimes […]

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Wasted Talent…

“It’s so sad.” Said the stranger standing next to me in Washington Square. Leaning into me in a whisper she continued her thought, “Such a waste of talent.” The talent she referred to was a man entertaining a growing crowd of fifty or more people as he playing a grand piano in this historical park […]

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3 things I learned from a mouse in a barbeque…

The weather has been phenomenal here in the Pacific NW. Last week at baseball practice we were having a barbeque to celebrate our All-Star kids. A friend and I pulled the old barbeque from the field shed. As we were chatting, I opened the lid and to our surprise, a small innocent mouse leaped into […]

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Called…8 steps to overcoming a life of resignation

#1 Face your shadow side. What have you been avoiding that is holding you back from walking in your true potential? Fear of failure, pride, jealousy, bitterness? In order to move forward, we must break free of low self-esteem and past regrets.   #2 Discover your vocation. Vocation or calling answers the question: “Where am […]

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The place between comfort and meaning

In a letter to his son, Eduard (1930), Albert Einstein wrote: “People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.” Victor Frankl, the renowned, Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and best-selling author of, Man’s Search for Meaning would call this forward movement, the search for meaning, the pursuit of a […]

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Tuesday Talk – Reinventing Community

How do you reinvent community? I live in Snoqualmie Valley. A rural community, once known for sprawling farm land that is now facing the integration of middle class suburbia. Snoqualmie Valley is nestled in the best of NW beauty with the nicest and most talented people you could meet. When I think about our community, […]

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Tuesday Talk…Today’s topic: Reinvention

  Tuesday Talk is about YOU! You are invited to write in with topic suggestion, questions, or great thoughts you want to share. I surely do not have all the answers but know that together we can generate some great conversation and have fun in the process. (Feel free to post your topics, questions, your […]

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