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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Ever find yourself criticizing others? You know, the easy temptation to judge someone else’s habits, say a person who attends Church and publicly displays their Christianity or Spirituality?
We watch these “Christians” and score them based on what we see them do.
Do you ever wonder how many others are doing the same thing to you?
Ever wonder what score you are getting?
It’s easy to see the plank in another’s eye, but not see the one in ours.
Patrick Henry Hughes was born without eyes, legs that don’t work and arms that barely work. Imagine his parents surprise and subsequent life challenges. Imagine Patrick’s life challenges.
Imagine your own.
Debbie, our dearly beloved colleague and friend, we miss you already and we don’t understand why you had to leave so soon.
I hope we all meet again on “the other side”. Offering this personal video I shot during Easter as a final tribute to your final destination, wherever that might be.
Ever make a commitment to volunteer, and do a pretty decent job at fulfilling your promise to yourself and to the others?
Ever stumble and fall, and wonder if you’ll be able to recover?
What do you do? Give up? Keep on keepin’ on?
Tonight will be the first time in weeks I’ve been able to attend Catechism. Traveling as a professional speaker sometimes inhibits the ability to live up to that volunteer commitment – to the teacher and to the children.
There are many lessons to be learned here.
Sisters Clanton and Akin came to talk to me on Friday night, but I did most of the talking. Probably a defense mechanism, designed to control a stereotypical conversation from “door-to-door salespeople”. They were selling the good news of Jesus, according to their Book of Mormon.
They were kind, friendly and very gracious.
Wish these questions would have come rushing forward before they left:
Do you still want or need to speak with me, after knowing I’m a full-blown Christian?
Who’s your target audience?
What’s at the very center of your belief that is critically different from mine?
Do you challenge yourself each and every day? To learn, to grow, to stretch?
So Wednesday I fly from Orlando to Bloomington, Indiana, home of Indiana University, and site of the Leadership workshop I conducted on Thursday. But because the departing flight was so early, I waited until I unpacked at the hotel to go for a 30-minute run around campus.
Enter the Dalai Lama.
He was at Indiana University to speak. Outside the building, many visitors were mixing and mingling. Two TV cameras on tripods were taping “interviews”.
One Monk was sitting quietly on a bench, reading. Politely asking if I could speak with him, we engaged in a 15-minute conversation. He had just come from Nepal a week earlier. Our conversation was casual, easy, respectful.
Perhaps it was my accent, coupled with my ignorance – my depth of Buddhist understanding is quite shallow, so I asked, “What’s at the very center of Buddhism?”
It took several minutes to explain the question’s intent, including sharing, “At the center of my Christian beliefs is Jesus, Love.”
He thought for a brief moment and said, “Compassion.”
I exclaimed, “Like Love!”
