‘Intentional Living’ Archives
Fabulously Fit and Intentionally Living in Your Middle Ages
I have officially acknowledged the passing of another year in my life. I'm pretty sure I qualify for middle age now or at least in a few years I would have but the ever present "they" keep changing the target age for this rite of passage and so I might still be a year or two more off from that magical mystical day in my life when I am not as [...]
Diabetic Lazy
Recently in a weekly production meeting at my job I launched into a bit of an anti-diabetic rant. Generally my co-workers, I think, find my rants somewhat humourous and that’s okay with me because otherwise that meeting could easily become a death march of upcoming events. But this particular rant wasn’t necessarily meant to be [...]
140 Million Children are at Risk – Is Yours One of Them?
Today is the 22nd annual American Diabetes Association Alert DaySM but here’s the problem with that - I don’t really do causes. I’ve consider quite a few and I believe in several but I have yet to find any that move me to a level of passion so great that I feel the need to declare it’s importance to the world each and everyday. Not [...]
Finding Contentment
If there is one thing that I am famously bad at it is being content. I’m always rocking on my heels ready to run to the next opportunity, whether I’ve completed the current one or not. Sometimes this trait in me is mistaken for perfectionism – my dissatisfaction with a plate presentation for a VIP banquet or my frustration of not knowing [...]
Ritual Human Sacrifice
photo credit: scazon Ritual sacrifice. It happens everyday though we don’t refer to it in such terms. As a part of their every day lives men and women across the globe sacrifice their base human desires for something else. I started thinking about this a couple of weeks ago as I prepared a lesson about Abraham and Isaac from the Old [...]
Sweet Confessions
This week marks a not so glorious moment in the life of my family. A year ago I was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes. Treatment, of course, started immediately and I hated it. The meds made me sick, my fingers were always sore from constant poking, it felt like I was always in the doctor’s office and the pharmacy spending money that I [...]
What Does Puxatony Phil Have to do with Your Diet.
Well it’s official – Six More Weeks of Winter! Stupid Groundhog! As you’ve made your way through this winter season you may have felt your body slow down and your cravings for hearty comfort foods increase. You may have also found that you can indeed have too much of a good thing. A certain amount of comfort eating can help your [...]
The Simplest Way to Strengthen Your Family and Keep Your Kids Away From Bad Influences
Admittedly family dinner can be a tough daily ritual to endure what with the constant badgering about “What is that?”, “I don’t like that!”, and “Can I have something else?” Then you have to juggle the time around all of the extracurricular activities of every member of the family and it is no wonder that so many families have [...]
There is a Place in Every Man's Soul
There is a place in every man's soul that he alone can fill. It can not be filled by family, friends, money, love, dreams, or success. This place can not even be filled by God. This is the place where he accepts himself, accepts all that he is, was, and will be. It is the place where today is just what it needs to be. It is the place [...]
Sushi & Sumo in the Chapel
The dog has four feet, but he does not walk them in four roads. - Haitian Proverb Some of the lyrics of the eighteenth century American Christian hymn, “How Firm a Foundation” have been weighing on my heart and mind as of late. How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent word! What more can He [...]
