Dave and Liane Phillips of CincinnatiWorks.org answer the question “Why Don’t They Just Get A Job?” I’m speaking today with Dave Phillips, founder along with his wife Liane of Cincinnati Works – the nonprofit company that has moved 5000 families from the chronically unemployed and the working poor to self sufficiency. The same program is…
Forgetting Myself In Laundry
My resolution: To get over my selfish, it’s all about me attitude. To lose myself in the service of God and his children. How? When I do anything, even laundry, to do it for God and his children. To notice when it’s about me, and turn it around to being about Him. Here’s how I…
Bells Are Ringing
It’s that time of year again, when a lot of us stand all bundled up, ringing the bell for the Salvation Army. Today is my shift and I’m not happy about it. I know I’m going to be cold and bored and have to listen to that ever-ringing bell the whole time. And I’m the…
Betty Stuns Me
My friend Betty and her husband Tom are dealing with Tom’s sudden lung cancer. That’s hard anywhere but more so in Appalachia. Not much paid work here but lots of grueling labor just to survive – huge gardens, canning the crops grown, chopping wood to get through winter. That’s after working a job like Betty’s…
Happiness in Real Life
I’m reading “In The Spirit of Happiness” by the good-humored Monks of New Skete. It would be nice to give yourself over to God I think – like a monk, a nun. I’m envious of that spiritual based life. Then I read how they support themselves in their spiritual life – farming, constructing their own…
Does God Understand Business?
I must not think so. Got up last Monday with my list of things to do running through my head. Took them to God and got this – “Forget doing order fulfillment today. Just relax and clean up the office.” I thought – there’s no way I’m letting the orders go unshipped. Monday is our…
It Is Never Too Late
83 Year Old Betty Let Go and Let God by Taking The In His Footsteps Challenge Betty, an oldest daughter with all that that implies (responsible, does what she should do) decided to take the In His Footsteps challenge to discover God’s purpose for her life. The In His Footsteps challenge is a way letting…
12 Ways You Can Help Spread the Message and The Book
Buy and share – Thank you to you who choose to buy it for yourself and for any of your friends. You can buy it here now. After Nov 1, 2010 it’s available at any local or online bookstore (Amazon or Barnes and Noble.) Email – email everyone! Word-of-mouth is one of the best recommendations…