The same goes for those who want to be servants in the church: serious, not deceitful, not too free with the bottle, not in it for what they can get out of it. They must be reverent before the mystery of the faith, not using their position to try to run things. Let them prove […]
Category: Leadership
Who’s In Charge … ?
So apparently some questions has been raised about the nature of authority over spiritual bloggers. Apparently, each and everyone of us are household names, with thousands of followers who hang on our every word. Well, not me and the rest of the vast majority of the blogosphere who maintain tiny specks of blogs that hardly […]
B.F. (Before Feminism)
(Sexism) was a fact of life I simply had to accept. Men felt threatened and mistrustful of women who had good ideas, and one had to employ immense tact when dealing with directors and producers. – Olivia de Haviland, 100 year old actress “What really burns me up,” Gertrude Legendre wrote in October 1941, “is […]
Being
Be kind but not a doormat. Be gentle but not weak. Be sweet but not too nice. Be dependable but not independent. Be strong but not too strong and don’t be fragile. Be attractive but not vain. Be honest but not candid. Be resourceful but not an usurper. Be soft but not hard. Be happy […]