Losing the right battle

Why is the struggle so relentless?  Because God wants to change us, and we don’t want to be changed.  Not really, not the kind of change God wants.  I mean really change.  Not cosmetic surgery, but radical surgery – that’s what God’s after.  He intends to reach down into the guts of our soul and rip the … Continue reading »

Doing it wrong

We grow spiritually much more by doing it wrong than by doing it right. Richard Rohr in Falling Upward. Hmm, that fits well with a fear of failure…not! But I think this is going to be a helpful book for me personally, though I get the feeling that I may have a higher view of … Continue reading »

Fridays are for reflection

I sense a blog series coming on.  ‘Fridays are for…’, it would be called. But I don’t need any more self-imposed pressures in my life and if I were to say that I was going to do such a series, then I would feel committed to produce something every Friday in this vein.  Since I … Continue reading »

Teetering at the edge of chaos

Here’s comfort for those of us who lead without entirely having a clue what we are doing… Peering ahead in the twenty-first century, there is little doubt we are teetering at the edge of chaos.  As we will see, this is a good thing because at the edge of chaos is the sweet spot where … Continue reading »

Risk failure

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything. Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation