Freedom is having choices by Paul Kearley This morning, while reading Richard Rohr’s Everything Belongs, my mind drifted to a question that caught me completely by surprise… Am I really free? Not politically. Not financially. But deeply. Am I free
Read MorePaul Kearley I remember being a young adolescent when my dad took me to see a house fire just down the street. It was enormous. The flames seemed to consume everything around it. The house was burning, but so were
Read Moreby Paul Kearley I can’t even begin to count how many times throughout my life I was told to be more like someone else. As a rambunctious child, it was: “Why can’t you be more like your brother?” In school:
Read MoreDiscomfort is often the doorway to the next version of ourselves by Paul Kearley There comes a point in life where you realize that growth is not a straight line. It is not a clean upward climb. It is not
Read MoreA hard truth I needed to hear again by Paul Kearley I woke up angry. That may sound dramatic, but it was real. Not mildly irritated. Not just “off.” Angry. There was a heaviness in me that felt old and
Read MoreSmall conversations sometimes create the biggest shifts by Paul Kearley I saw the email… and let it sit. Subject line: “Quick chat?” Two simple words. But I knew what it meant. There had been tension for weeks. Short replies. Missed
Read MoreWhat if we approached conflict differently? by Paul Kearley I woke up this morning with a deep sense of dread. Like many people, I’ve been watching the news about the growing tensions and conflict in the Middle East. History tells
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You can't score a goal unless you are shooting at something specific, like a job or net...or a life. Image: Taxi News
Choosing less doesn’t protect us; it quietly denies who we could become by Paul Kearley I was sitting with a group of eight young adults at a small business college, talking about what it would take for them to get
Read MoreReality is stubborn that way by Paul Kearley “My son, you only have a loan of your kids,” my father used to say. I didn’t fully understand that sentence when he first said it. I understand it now. After travelling
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