"Late one night St. Francis Borgia arrived unexpectedly at a Jesuit house, in a snowstorm. He knocked and knocked on the door, but all to no purpose because the community being asleep, no one heard him. When morning came all were embarrassed for the discomfort he had experienced by having had to spend the night in the open. The saint, however, said he had enjoye…
Read moreDo you want to know where your gods are? Kyle Idleman offers the following questions to discover where they are: What do you find really disappointing? What are you complaining about? Where do you make financial sacrifices? What worries you? Where is your sanctuary? Where do you look for emotional rescue? What infuriates you? What makes you crazy? (This can uncov…
Read moreIf you are wasting your time with all the minor stuff and never in the presence of the major you will never get to the important. In the Presence Of... when he keeps repeating that... When you are in the Presence Of , everything else is minor.
Read moreAs many of you know, I am student of the state of being. I will sit with a giant oak and learn how it lives it's purpose without crazy mind wandering on how to do. It doesn't struggle with the meaning of life, or if it is doing enough, or any of the busy nonsense that I get caught up in. So, as a student, I ask, can we learn something from this passage: …
Read more"'I grew up in the church,' he explained. 'I wanted to go into the ministry. I took all the courses, the theology, the languages, the exegesis. But I quit. Something just didn't click.' 'It's in there somewhere,' he spoke with earnestness. 'At least I think it is.'" pg xi "...Stop and empathize for a second…
Read moreThank goodness we are finally done with Eat That Frog ! That took forever! I am not going to be doing a review per se of this book, but I'm currently reading it for #75Hard and have hits some good points I want to talk about. Lucado writes about a real crime where thieves broke into a department store, "Instead of stealing anything, they changed the cost …
Read moreThis comes direction from the book starting at page 105. Putting It All Together The key to happiness, satisfaction, great success, and a wonderful feeling of personal power and effectiveness is for you to develop the habit of eating your frog first thing every day when you start work. Fortunately, this is a learnable skill that you can acquire through repeti…
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