Archive for June 2024

Prof. Ronald Heifetz, co-founder and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University discusses the difference between technical challenges and adaptive challenges. An example of technical challenges are illnesses, where you can go to a doctor who gives you a pill, tells you to rest and you…

I want to talk about guilt vs. shame.  I have always understood shame to be ‘I am bad’, and guilt being ‘what I have done is bad or wrong’. When I am bad, I have nowhere to go, I have no way of repenting, because I, myself am useless. However, when I have done something…

Sitting in judgement, jumping to conclusions, and giving the benefit of the doubt are all areas that in certain places I struggle with, and in certain circumstances I’m able to handle favorably.  When it comes to self-judgment, I’m extremely harsh. Yet when it comes to how I want others to judge me, I want them…

I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly and to break my covenant with them: for I am the lord, their God. But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I…