Blog | Chip Dodd

Dec 26, 2017
2 min

The Way We are Created

Courage means full-hearted participation. Have you ever become discouraged, or lost heart, attempted to withdraw yourself from caring or ...

Dec 19, 2017
2 min

I Believe it Like Air

I want to share something about Christmas. Before I do, however, I want to state that I have seen enough, experienced enough, learned eno...

Dec 12, 2017
4 min

In Praise of the Crippled, Blind, Practicing, and Beggars

In the fall of 2008 my youngest son went to an orthopedic surgeon seeking some answers to recurring lower back pain. At the time, he was ...

Dec 4, 2017
3 min

Living Daily Success

We have been given three paradoxical steps to set a foundation for a successful life. By successful, I refer to the internal sense of know...

Nov 27, 2017
2 min

Humility and Greatness

The disciples asked Jesus who was the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. To answer the disciples, Jesus called a little child to stand am...

Nov 20, 2017
1 min

Recovery A-Z

Life is hard. Love hurts. Life humbles us, and love brings pain. Anyone I have known who lives well amidst the difficulties of life, has ...

Nov 13, 2017
2 min

Healthy Shame and the Great Stew

Healthy shame is the feeling that brings us into relationship with our own limitations and neediness because it makes us conscious of our...

Nov 6, 2017
2 min

Sickness of Rage vs. Truth of Anger

Rage is a deeply impaired experience of fear, a fear that a person cannot and/or will not tolerate. Rage is a closed fist to ward off or ...

Oct 30, 2017
2 min

Anxiety and Fear

Anxiety takes us away from what is true and makes us fretful, distrustful, impulsive, and controlling. In anxiety we rob ourselves of dai...

Oct 23, 2017
2 min

The Vital Importance of Chores

Chores often get thrown into the category of worthless things one does to get to all the things that we want to do. They, indeed, are the...

Oct 16, 2017
2 min

Ambition and Transience

Last week, Sonya and I got to go to Ponte Vedra beach for a week. The beach was deserted, with the time of year and the offseason. I was ...

Oct 3, 2017
2 min

The Extra Mile

I believe very much that we need to push ourselves. We need to be able to take the next step, work hard, find out that we can persevere i...

Sep 25, 2017
2 min

We Don’t Need to Save Face

Tigers do not pretend that they are something other than tigers. When I have watched them walk about, they seem very content to be tigers...

Sep 19, 2017
2 min

Courage and Neediness

Courage in its simplest form means full-hearted participation. It says, “I’m all in.” When it comes to full-hearted participation, childr...

Sep 11, 2017
3 min

Your Best Life Now

We are amazingly created and creative. We are born with essential capacities that become the ability to dream of a future, imagine it, ho...

Sep 5, 2017
2 min

Fundamental Sounds and Sights

I dropped one of my teenage sons off at a baseball field for warm-ups before a game, and headed back down a two lane road to an old store...

Aug 28, 2017
2 min

Good Things Happen

We have been told or figured out four ways that life works. These four thoughts are how we summarize life’s blessings, injustices, unfair...

Aug 21, 2017
2 min

Creation, Creatures and Creating

Dr. Marian Diamond, a neuroscientist, overturned long-held beliefs by proving through research that environmental factors can change the ...

Aug 14, 2017
3 min

Transitions

A friend of mine told me a story of entering the seventh grade middle school. He’s a grown man, now; flies for FedEx. In fact, he is the ...

Aug 7, 2017
2 min

Comparing can Contaminate

In spite of all the different levels of outward adornment, no one has it made, and no one really has it easy. Everyone has turmoil. Examp...

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