Brian McLaren identifies how prayers of petition help us to experience forgiveness:
Since being wounded or sinned against is a terribly common experience, I suspect we need to pay more attention to it. In fact, being wronged is directly linked in the Lord’s Prayer to the reality of doing wrong; we pray, “forgive us our sins as we... See more
Most egos operate like a fierce cheiftain, extending their control over the landscape, the people in it, the hunting grounds,,
things get better when the ego sheds, shrinks, becomes one of the deer grazing in the landscape, following the whims and drives of the forest it’s a
Start your next project with a giant scroll of paper
I learned this from my friend Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy. When he starts a project, he gets out a giant piece of butcher paper — like three feet by sixty feet.
When you start the project, you put your first ideas down in the top-left... See more
This love ethic must be at the center of our whole life, or it cannot be effective or real in the crucial moments of conflict. We have to practice drawing our lives from this new source, in thought, word, emotion, and deed, every day, or we will never be prepared for the major confrontations or the surprise humiliations that will come our way.