Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter A reflection on annoyances… I am doing the exercise that I sent out on Monday — Managing Annoyances — and have two observations that I wanted to share with you. (No, I’m not going to tell you the number of times that I get annoyed a day […]
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Rabbi Brian 34/40 Managing Annoyances There’s a popular saying in the business world: You can’t manage what you don’t measure. (For those of you who care, follow the link; it’s interesting.) I want us to do an exercise that will measure something in our spiritual-religious
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Larry Keene 32/40 Kindness What a wonderful moment it is, O God, when a kind person walks into our lives. We feel so protected and encouraged. So safe from the pain we often bring to ourselves and from the crushing harm that others sometimes inflict on
Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Rabbi Brian 31/40 Band-Aid as a Metaphor A few years ago, I cut my thumb pretty badly while I was working on some stained glass. No stitches though – thank God. Here’s what I wrote about it: There’s a band-aid covering the tip of my very
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Rabbi Brian 30/40 Real Religious Moments Last week (issue 29/40), my friend Sparky wrote about Marcus Borg’s notion of “thin spaces” – those magical moments when we feel connected to the holy. This week, I want to explicitly encourage you to contemplate your thin spaces
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Sparky Jamison 29/40 Thin Spaces by Sparky Jamison Every now and then, as I seek God in the everyday, I’m astonished to find that there is the thinnest of membranes between us, God and me — a time or place in which I can sense a
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Rabbi Brian 28/40 Employment Opportunity: Self-Hate Required. Imagine the following advertisement: Are you overly critical of yourself? Do you invest in misery? The Bank of Self-Hate is looking to hire! Hopefully, you are not overly qualified. The idea comes from the book There Is Nothing Wrong
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Rabbi Brian 27/40 Jealousy and Envy. Today I’m going to talk about the seemingly twin notions of jealousy and envy, and how they’re different. The first word “jealousy” has its root in the word “zeal.” You can hear the similarity in the Spanish word, celos. And
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Larry Keene 26/40 Showing Forgiveness Oh Lord, it is a wonderful feeling to feel forgiven by people we have wronged. There is no lower low in all of life than to have done something terribly wrong to another person and to feel as if that
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Religion-Outside-The-Box The 77% Weekly The 40/52-weeks-a-year, spiritual-religious newsletter From Rabbi Brian 25/40 Be a Mentor! Today might just be “Have a Mentor” Day. (I invented it. Play along with me.) I want you to imagine yourself as a mentor. Think of a youngster, someone who doesn’t know as much as you do about general
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