by Beth Lueders | Jan 31, 2019 | Blog Post, Perspective
You and I need a fireside chat and not just because the polar vortex is bitterly walloping chunks of the country. If you and I were sitting around a roaring fire and chatting about life and our dreams and aspirations for 2019, I would hope we’d find ourselves at ease...
by Beth Lueders | Jan 24, 2019 | Blog Post, Everyday People, Resilience
Second best. When is coming in second actually a better accomplishment? Eric Larsen, America’s most accomplished polar explorer, has poignant thoughts on coming in just shy of a top-tier goal. For his December 2018 trek to reach the South Pole in record time, Eric had...
by Beth Lueders | Jan 17, 2019 | Blog Post, Perspective
Stumbling along with my dog in the awakening morning light, I saw them. Three small things. . .three little stones on the frozen sidewalk. Something had dislodged them from their landscaping bed. Perhaps another human-dog duo out on their constitution. Before I...
by Beth Lueders | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog Post, Perspective
Learning to bend in life includes learning to hold tight when it feels like God goes silent. Hello? Hello? Are you there? So goes the wondering when it comes to the Almighty and his sealed lips. When God feels so eerily distant, has he sealed his heart off from us...
by Beth Lueders | Jan 4, 2019 | Blog Post, Perspective
In an old TV episode of House M.D., Aussie Dr. Robert Chase shares some wise counsel with medical student Martha Masters (Amber Tamblyn). Masters, known for her more matter-of-fact communication with patients, asks Dr. Chase how be gentler in her bedside manner,...
