November 24, 2008

For What are you Thankful?

A simple question for those you are coaching.
A question Americans will mull over this coming Thursday as the nation, once again, celebrates Thanksgiving.  Most of us are familiar with the origins of the holiday as was played out in our elementary years with pageants of construction paper hatted Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians likewise festooned […]

November 10, 2008

Coaching Through Pain

Recently I’ve been tested on a very personal level by needing to coach someone who is in tremendous physical and emotional pain.  It is a deep and trying valley. Everything in me would rather relieve this person of her pain but it is beyond my and even many good physicians’ ability.  Instead it is my […]

November 4, 2008

The Path

I’m Irish…well mostly Irish. Blessings are an important part of Irish spirituality and culture.  You’ve probably heard many of them especially at St. Patrick’s Day:“May you be in Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you’re dead!”
Or the famous Irish benediction:
“May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back.
May […]

The purposes of a man's heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out. Proverbs 20:5 NIV