Blog | Chip Dodd

Oct 9, 2018
2 min

A Friend’s Prayer

A good friend recently took the time to send me a prayer that he has been praying for himself and his friends for some time. I’m very gra...

Oct 2, 2018
2 min

Big Results from Simple Actions

The following is a list of ten qualities that make leaders worth joining, and make participants valuable to leaders. These ten simple act...

Sep 25, 2018
3 min

Failing Well

No one naturally seeks to become mediocre, the diminishment of excellence. Anyone who thinks that they seek mediocrity, i.e., the uninspi...

Sep 18, 2018
2 min

Integrity as a Natural Outgrowth of Response Ability

Integrity is what people who have an internal locus of control tend to express in thought and action. An internal locus of control is th...

Sep 11, 2018
3 min

Courage, Faith, Work, and Powerlessness

I It seems paradoxical, but admission of powerlessness can access great gifts. In a movie called Gladiator, Russell Crowe stars as a gene...

Sep 4, 2018
3 min

Four Realities

There are four realities in living life that we cannot overcome. They are fixed factors of living on earth. We may waste our lives attemp...

Aug 28, 2018
2 min

Vulnerability and Perseverance

If we love well, allowing ourselves to be “all in,” we will undoubtedly have experiences that bring pain to our lives. We will have vulne...

Aug 21, 2018
1 min

Encompassing Love

Please read the words below about the power of love from Song of Solomon 8:6-7. In an intimate whisper the words tell us about the deepes...

Aug 14, 2018
2 min

Cicadas

Cicadas are the bugs that come out of the ground, some every year, and others on 13 or 17 years cycles. They crawl to surfaces of tree ba...

Jul 31, 2018
2 min

Taking Love for Granted

What a gift to be able to take love for granted. Much of my life, I thought that for me to take anything for granted was somehow an expre...

Jul 24, 2018
3 min

Lessons on Longings

Martina McBride sang a country song called “Anyway” and the first stanza says: You can spend your whole life building Something from noth...

Jul 17, 2018
2 min

Bird’s Nests

One of the wonders of the earth to show a child is a bird’s nest. Sonya and I were walking down our street some time ago and a bird’s nes...

Jul 10, 2018
3 min

A Myth about Men

One of the accepted realities about men is that they don’t “do” feelings, reject intimacy, and are not romantic. Based upon my work with ...

Jul 3, 2018
3 min

How to Love a Friend in Crisis

Calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK have increased 25% since the recent deaths of two very notable people...

Jun 26, 2018
3 min

Trust and Trustworthy

Trust allows us to rely on something or someone. Trust has to do with the next step towards wherever we are headed. If I step off of soli...

Jun 19, 2018
2 min

What Children Need

Children really have only a few essential questions of caregivers. Will you grow with me? Will you help me become grown up? Will you live...

Jun 12, 2018
2 min

Lightning Bugs

I noticed the other evening just before dark the lightning bugs flickering here and there. To me, like the robin heralds spring, lightnin...

Jun 5, 2018
3 min

The Problem of Loneliness

According to the journalist Johann Hari in the book, Lost Connections, researchers have concluded, “humans need tribes as much as a bee n...

May 30, 2018
4 min

Living the Dream

Everyone has dreams, the pictures of possibilities that aren’t yet realized. Dreams call us to look up from the ground toward the horizon...

May 22, 2018
2 min

A Better Goodbye

In English when we tell someone, “goodbye,” it can mean much or almost nothing. If we are referring to something final with our goodbye, w...

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