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Looking for Answers Through Dirty Glasses: April 2013
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Finding a Lost Mentor in the Halls of the Capitol. I walked the hallway between the Montana Governor's Office and the Capitol Rotunda with the slow steps of someone who had been successful, but not successful enough. We'd just completed a bill signing for legislation that would help Montana's criminal justice system more effectively care and adjudicate offenders who live with serious mental illness. We searched through our collective memory banks and then hit me. That night my wi...
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Looking for Answers Through Dirty Glasses: Lessons for Students Going Into High School
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Thursday, August 29, 2013. Lessons for Students Going Into High School. Thanks to LeeAnn Berry for convincing me to share the outline for a speech that I gave to a group of middle school graduates a few years ago. Always a teacher, LeeAnn also convinced me to add another lesson to the list. 2 Learn to fail. 3 Be nice to people. You are going to have some very real regrets from your high school years, but you'll never wish that you were meaner to someone. Your harsh words and actions will haunt you fo...
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Looking for Answers Through Dirty Glasses: When to Stop Pushing: Life Lesson from a Macebell
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013. When to Stop Pushing: Life Lesson from a Macebell. The Macebell can be very dangerous without proper instruction. Do not attempt it without guidance from a fitness professional that can assure you're doing it safely. In case you haven't seen a Macebell, here's a video of professional wrestling legend Karl Gotch doing Macebell 360's.]. I went in the back yard that night and attacked my workout with the fervor of a lab rat running from an electric shock. I swung the Macebell up...
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Looking for Answers Through Dirty Glasses: July 2014
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The Complexity And Challenges of Praying for Others. Please pray for me." - "Please pray for her." - "Please pray for him.". It's an essential refrain of the faithful. The call to pray for each other is echoed throughout the Bible, but perhaps most clearly in James 5:16, "Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed." Each Apostolic letter is full of examples of the fathers of the Church asking other to pray for them. The harsh reality of impr...
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Looking for Answers Through Dirty Glasses: The Complexity And Challenges of Praying for Others
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The Complexity And Challenges of Praying for Others. Please pray for me." - "Please pray for her." - "Please pray for him.". It's an essential refrain of the faithful. The call to pray for each other is echoed throughout the Bible, but perhaps most clearly in James 5:16, "Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed." Each Apostolic letter is full of examples of the fathers of the Church asking other to pray for them. The harsh reality of impr...
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Looking for Answers Through Dirty Glasses: November 2013
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013. 1990's Magic Eye Posters and the Illusion of Ownership. This post is dedicated to Joe Day. Joe was a regular at the NAMI Montana office before passing away this week. Joe courageously battled serious bipolar disorder and poverty. Despite these challenges, he really enjoyed life and helped make all of us better - even when we didn't want to. Put your nose right on the poster, then slowly move back". I followed their orders, but didn't see the hidden image. I recently grasped ...
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Looking for Answers Through Dirty Glasses: Lesson From A Sermon So Long that It Killed One of the Faithful
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013. Lesson From A Sermon So Long that It Killed One of the Faithful. This post is dedicated to my friend and colleague Boyd Roth. Boyd was a long-time NAMI volunteer in Kalispell, Montana. He passed away last week. Boyd had a courageous battle with severe bipolar disorder and a number of physical issues, but he always focused on helping others rather than himself. He also had a missionary zeal that would have amazed even Saint Paul. Having been at more than one late night Mass, I ...
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Looking for Answers Through Dirty Glasses: June 2013
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013. Cars Seat Spiritual Guides And Saint Paul: Conversing Between Beliefs and Faiths. Zen pilgrims traveled from monastery to monastery across ancient China to learn from spiritual masters who used puzzling, of paradoxical statements and stories, to prompt spiritual awakening. I undergo a similar process while driving my daughters around town. The spiritual masters sit in their flower-print, front-facing cars eats and pepper me with theological questions, revelations, and absurdities.
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Looking for Answers Through Dirty Glasses: December 2013
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013. Monarch Butterflies, Paramecium, and the Mystery of Christmas. This time of year, we all beat each other about losing the true spirit of Christmas. I can't argue against our collective guilt. Awash in a world of decisions between where to shop, what to buy, and how to wrap the gifts. School vacations plan. Trees to light up. Meals to make. Friends to visit. Family to love and argue with. How can we grasp the nature of that massive spiritual inflection in human history when we ...
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Looking for Answers Through Dirty Glasses: October 2013
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Monday, October 21, 2013. The Bible’s Blueprint for Political Decisions in a Democracy. This post is a lot drier than my usual posts, but I believe that the United States is at a critical stage in our democracy and it's important to seek guidance on how the government President Abraham Lincoln described as "of the people, by the people, for the people" should continue forward. If there is a role, how do we balance it with Saint Paul's message that society should limit free-loading? Describes how the king...