This isn’t a pleasant pastoral scene. This is a soul-scan revealing the tension between our personal responsibilities and the call to care for others.
Your Soul Is Like A Wild Animal
Your soul is like a wild animal – shy, but capable of enduring times of great stress. It is always choosing life instead of darkness. Honor it, care for it, listen to it.
Invitation to a Wake
Just as a boat’s wake continues to be present in the ocean long after it is visible, these are strong, visceral experiences that continue to eddy and swirl within us, rising into our awareness in unexpected moments.
Fenced and Free
I don’t know how I’ve made it this far, and don’t know how much longer I’ve got. But when she held my finger as she slept, I was reminded what a miracle it is for all of us to be alive.
Silver Keys, Mean Moms and Compassion in the Workplace
The right thing to do was not to simply feel compassion for everyone involved, but to find a solution to the problem. That took “art and skill.”
Uncover the Love
That love I sensed was there all my life? No one created it, but each person reflected it.
Living on the Back Side of the Tapestry
In the end, it’s not just about me, it’s about all of us, and that big, evolving, living tapestry we are all part of.
Angela Merkel’s Gardener and the Unexpected Mentors in Our Life
We never know the impact we have on others. Who taught you lasting lessons along your way?
The “Narcissism of Small Differences:” Toothpaste, Starbucks, and The Human Condition
We prize attention to detail in many areas of life. But we can easily fall prey to the “narcissism of small differences.” We can make choices about things that have little relation to their actual value.
“You Never Know”
In real life, we often must make decisions using the available facts and truest feelings we have at the time. How will it turn out? You never know.
Steve Jacobsen, Ed.D 