You may not be able to change the world, but you can help to create better spaces in the world….

Love is who you are, not what you do. When love is who you are, it’s what you do.

A god or leader who rules with an iron fist must always live in fear….

I’ve never learned anything new from someone who sees things exactly as I do. Painting: brendatrapani.com

Young feet running toward an empty stage Heavily armed with vision and mission Overflowing with words and stories Testimonies Strategies Punctuated with rehearsed passion, perfectly-timed tears, and meaningful gestures that belie teflon greetings and stilted waves to the lesser ones on the way to stage left To the onlookers and audience members Market segments Ones…

If you want someone to stay, give them a place to hang their hat. Make space for them that is warm and inviting. Make time for them, and give them the opportunity to be heard and to feel needed. Display their strengths and accomplishments on your wall. Store their weaknesses and failures in a back…

I ponder sometimes how often I may be misunderstood and how often I may misunderstand others because of mistaken assumptions. 1 Corinthians 13 is about putting assumptions aside and not pretending to know anything we really do not know about each other. It’s about seeing and believing the best in others because we humbly acknowledge…

Practice forgiveness in the small things. Practice like a concert pianist seeking mastery and a performance on stage at Carnegie Hall. Practice for the day when you must forgive the unforgivable committed by someone who doesn’t comprehend or acknowledge what they’ve done to you, much less have the inclination to ask you for forgiveness. If…

I’m increasingly convinced that you cannot love one person and despise another.  You cannot love your children and despise their father. You cannot love your friends and despise your enemies. You cannot love a person and despise their actions, as if they’re somehow distinct from each other. “What about Hitler?” is always the response, as…

Knowledge is both expanding and limiting. Everything we take in is framed, organized, and ultimately accepted or rejected based on what we already know and have experienced. We learn “new” things only to an extent. We cannot comprehend the existence of what we do not know or have not conceived of knowing, and we often…

We show our greatest contempt for others by simply ignoring them.

Leave a room cleaner, more organized, more beautiful than you found it. Leave people happier, stronger, more encouraged than you found them.