Take Time for Reflection: #1 of Five Resolutions for an Outstanding New Year

Sometimes it feels like time is going so fast that a week or even a month has gone by and I have no idea how it happened.  Do you ever feel like that? Our world seems like it’s speeding up every year.  Faster connection rates, quad-core processors, 4G LTE cell...

Reflecting on 2012 — How did YOU do on those Resolutions?

Wow, can you believe 2012 is about to come to a close? I can’t. This year has just flown by. Naturally, at this point in December, I begin to think about all that has happened this past year and then I remembered that exactly a year ago I wrote the “Six New Year’s...

Getting The Heart Along With The Cash

“I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Several posts ago I told you that the giving and getting of gifts is a difficult thing for me. Here’s why. I was sent off to a boarding school in another country when I was six...

I Can’t Ask Again!!

Your major donor has just given in the last month or last several weeks and you are now turning your attention to the donors on your caseload who have not given so far this calendar year. This is good. But you may be missing an opportunity to bring additional joy into...

There is Joy in Suffering

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi  I don’t like pain.  For most of my life I’ve either denied or avoided suffering.  Pain and suffering are things I have to consciously invite into my life or I find myself running away from them as fast as I...