Archive for February, 2011
Posted on February 6, 2011 - by melinda
How do you have a meaningful conversation with a hurting person?
It’s can be a challenge to have a meaningful conversation with a hurting person.
I’ll share some tips to help meet that challenge confidently when I visit with Nancy Turner on her daily program, “This Is the Day,” heard on 90.1 WMBI-FM in Chicago on Monday, Feb. 28, between 10-11 a.m. CT. We’ll talk about “How to have a conversation with a hurting person.”
Notes will be posted on the program’s website after our visit.
Posted on February 6, 2011 - by melinda
How many books should be read in a month?
How many books can I, should I, read in a month. How much of that content that is meaningful… remains meaningful over the course of 30 days?
So far I have finished Edith Wharton’s “House of Mirth” in February (uh yeah, I started the book in December!) and although I found it depressing, I have settled on the fact that the loser-main character, Lily Bart, and I have some characteristics we share. Like…struggling to be vulnerable and being blind to an out-stretched hand offering help …the resources available to me from another’s mind and heart …and the love being extended to me from someone who cares for me.
So do I move on to another book? Or do I sit with Lily at one of her upper-crust NYC restaurants, invite God’s Spirit to join the conversation at our table and take some February days to think through this vulnerabilty-thing?
