At both of my children’s schools, the motto of “Be Kind” has been taken up as the overall theme for everyone to follow.  The research the schools have provided to us parents about this tells us that if you foster a culture of kindness with everyone this will decrease bullying…

A good friend of mine sent this excerpt below to me recently from CS Lewis’s book The Screwtape letters. Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters in 1942 and it is comprised of 31 letters written by a “senior demon” named Screwtape to his nephew, Wormwood a younger and “less experienced demon”. My dear…

Weekly ration   “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.” Eph 4:29 ESV Boy did I need to be reminded of this today. “…only such as is…

I entered into a meeting this week with the wrong attitude. I came into the meeting with a defensive mindset, ready to battle my pre-determined position on the topic.  I already had decided that whatever the other folks were going to present about the topic, I was going to stand…

Weekly Ration   “So whether we are at home or away, we make our aim to please him.”  2 Cor 5:9 ESV What are you aiming for this week? A productive meeting at work? An uninterrupted block of time so you can get a few of those things done that…

“I barely made it to my meeting on time!” “I waited too late to start getting ready for church and now we all will be late!” “I never seem to have time to recover or even think about what we just discussed in that meeting because I am always rushing…

Weekly Ration   “A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.”  Prov 15:18 ESV How many times have we heard this example, seen it in practice, know it to be true, but then find ourselves acting in a hot-tempered way at the most…

Weekly Ration “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.”  Prov 11:2 NIV Do you know everything? Has acting like you do ever gotten you further in life than acting in the opposite manner? Watching the Iron Man 2 movie again this week and seeing Tony Stark’s…

How much time do you spend doing stuff? You know, responding to emails, packing your lunch, preparing for meetings, talking on the phone, sending a text, etc. How much time do you spend thinking? And when I say thinking, I’m talking about sitting alone thinking, no noise, no TV, nothing…

Weekly Ration “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.“ James 4:7 ESV So, if we only will submit ourselves to God, He has already promised that the devil’s schemes will run away from us. Not a bad promise to know about! I know…