Reading Facebook is people watching from the anonymity of your easy chair. All who post are weather reporters. Posters come in two types. Some write about clouds, drizzle, rain, sleet, hail, snow, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Others post about sunshine! Not just concerning the weather, but everything! You might respond, they’re just telling …
A simple test on Facebook last Saturday got a response from a woman hiding in a closet 4000 miles away! Let me explain. In the spring, I love to putter in my country garden in the foothills of the Washington Cascades. Saturday there would be no puttering, just steady rain. An obvious post to facebook …
Dr. Caroline Leaf, in her book, Who Switched Off My Brain, writes that there are only two types of emotions—love and fear! Every emotion is either one or the other. Guess which one messes with the chemistry in your brain flushing your body with toxins? Dr. Orv Owens, in his book, The Psychology of Relationship …
The President of the United States is probably the loneliest man on the planet. Clinton kept Buddy, the dog. Bush 43 kept a mountain bike. Obama keeps a golf club. The most powerful man in the world is the most lonely man in the world. How odd. The press complains that Obama golfs way too …
Pupils milky with cataracts, a crippled and wrinkled 83-year-old, peers in desperate search of another face. Jerking her graying head from side to side she slurs, “I’m so incredibly alone, so incredibly alone.” A lone tear travels through a laugh line left over from her glory days. As I grappled with Elise Page’s post at …
Okay, I’ll give it to you straight. There are posts on what to call your posts so search engine vacuums suck in readers. Turns out the #1 title you can post is, You Are Not Alone. I was mulling about this title when I opened a post by recent Whitworth University graduate, Elise Page at …
With eyes closed, I stood near the back of the Sonrise Chapel with my arms raised as we sang majestic words of worship. In my imagination, I saw great glorious drops of honey gold dropping all around me. Ten minutes later, I opened my eyes and craned my neck to see what the prophetic artists …
As the Monday Morning Prayer girls gathered on April 4, 2011, we did not know that the craftsman who built the cathedral within my home had passed into glory. Jay Sutherland was no common contractor, but a skilled craftsman with an eye for detail and a spirit of prophecy. You’ve probably heard the story of …
Recently, I celebrated weight lifting 1 million pounds at the Y. I was pretty impressed until I met Kristina who has lifted 23 million pounds! However, if you’ve not done weight training, you might be more curious how to lift one million pounds than 23 million! These tips are for the person who wants 500 …
Recall the last time you ran into a friend in the supermarket aisle who didn’t tell you she’d been busy? I know—it was the time you met the friend who’s been sick for a month—because she’s been too busy! How does the concept of “busy” align with your flourishing life? If flourishing is being “fruitful …