“What if you and your family were starving, and someone with an abundance of food responded by offering ‘their thoughts and prayers’?” “Stop praying,” you’d say. “Do something.” A preponderance of these and similar reactions fire around Twitter in the wake of a...
You don’t reason with an enraged momma bear
“Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly” - Prov 17:12 This isn’t one of those “gotta experience it to understand it” proverbs. You don’t need to go out and try to snatch some bear cubs to gain some insight on “I wonder how...
Close your mouth to save your life
“Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.” - Prov 13:3 Sometimes, the hardest thing in the world is keeping your mouth shut. There can be this sense, like for Jeremiah (Jer 20:9), that the words you hold back are a burning...
The balanced, centered, “zenned” life
"I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion." - Proverbs 8:12 You can become a meditation coach, but you need to know how to pitch it. Why should someone learn how to meditate? For many of the same reasons people seek the expanding field of...