Dear Resilient Traveler, Welcome to another week in the rest of our lives! May we press hard into Jesus, acknowledging Him in ALL of our ways, and confident that He will direct our paths. My resilience music this week includes the song “Waymaker” (I encourage you to find it on YouTube) — it reminds us …
No doubt we all have different pictures of FREEDOM in our minds. Basically, Freedom is the absence of captivity. Perhaps you think of captives in prison who are “freed.” Or maybe someone in bondage to an addiction who is able to gain freedom. Clearly, Christ followers would think of the freedom they have received from …
Dear Resilient Traveler, Prayerfully you had a great week of “Waiting on the Lord.” Our feature article last week — “Are We There Yet?” — seemed to be relevant to many, me included! Certainly most of us find it difficult to be patient in all circumstances. In fact, it takes a lifetime of practice to …
We live in an “Age of Offense.” While taking offense has always been part of our human DNA, today’s culture (including many of us) has placed narrowly defined personal “rights” and interests on an unprecedented pedestal. This self-interest idolatry is a destructive toxin which divides peoples and sabotages healthy and respectful relationships across a diverse …
Dear Resilient Traveler, Welcome to another week of resilient living – God Style! As a long-standing birthday tradition on February 2d, I watched the movie “Ground Hog Day,” a 1993 American fantasy comedy which stars Bill Murray as Phil Connors, a TV weatherman who, during an assignment covering the annual Groundhog Day event, is caught …
How many times have you been on a long drive with family when the familiar refrain from the backseat echoes: “Are We There Yet?” I have probably heard this hundreds of times as a parent, but also from my own lips as a young back-seat traveler on long road trips across the expanse of Texas. …
When I wrote Resilient Warriors in 2011, the word “resilience” was not widely used. Today, the word is pervasive, applied to everything from cyber security to climate change to electric grids to recovery from disasters to a wide range of mental, emotional, and spiritual topics. As a matter of interest, I have set a Google …
Issue 17: Aging-The Unavoidable Test of Resilience! Read More »
I’ve heard many an elderly person reflect that “aging is not for the weak or faint hearted.” As one who just had another “zero” birthday moving into a new decade of life, I am starting to identify with that sentiment. The reality is that at some point we all start to creak, at some point …