Busy or Flourishing?
Read more: Busy or Flourishing?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…
Floundering or Flourishing
Read more: Floundering or FlourishingOn the first Sunday following the devastation in Japan, I received a phone call from a dear friend in my Noevir business. She had been watching “talking heads” all morning and spiraling deeper into gloom. With all the foreshadowing, she saw her business with our Japanese cosmetic giant being washed away in a tsunami of…
When Life Seems Fragile
Read more: When Life Seems FragileOne afternoon in 1898, my grandmother disappeared behind the barn to call the cows. When she reappeared she had received a call from an unseen audible voice announcing, “Take off your shoes; this is holy ground.” Falling to her knees in the pasture this staunch German Lutheran met Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and…
