Category Archives: Searching Souls Blog (Click on the Titles to Read the Entire Writing)

Twists and Turns

Have you confronted the twists and turns of your life? Mapping your life’s journey brings a bit of clarity and insight in to how life and your Mentor’s direction reveal who you are and what you are designed for. Take a moment within the craziness of your life to journal and document significant moments impacted [...]

Wholesome or Hole

We continue to look for that which satisfies and fulfills to cover the hole within our soul. Wholesome, it is not, that drives us to desparate means and ends to satiate a never ending hunger for completeness. Unfortunately, the answer to our fulfillment is love and its pure, holy Source and Center, the Creator of our lives, that [...]

Reality and becoming human

To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do—to grit your teeth and clench your fists in order to survive the world at its harshest and worst—is by that very act, to be unable to let something be done for you and in you that is more wonderful still. The [...]

Success versus Failure

I once interviewed a man who seemed to have come in to my life in a strange but purposeful way. Bear with me as I circuitously get to the point. At the time, I was a director of sales for a company that responded to and cleaned up train wrecks. The sales people had a tough and [...]

Great things lie on the razor’s edge of disaster…

The quote in the title of this blog, by an unknown author, speaks for itself. Each day has the potential for great adventures and challenges presenting an awesomeness that may be enthralling or terrifying. The unknown of what will come next is the fear inducing dilemma. Ahead may be great victories or humbling defeat. We’ll never know, [...]

Raging river

Ever venture out in to the swirling torrent of a flooded river? The river bank may have calm eddies depending on the curve of the river’s course. But, taking a step out beyond the safe edge brings the ineviteable current’s pull at legs and body and the raging torrents unmercifully consume the person whole.
Emotions are similar in how they can [...]

Passing ships in the night…

The image of passing ships in the night brings a strong sense of solitude, sadness, and, even, desperation. There is no connection between the two as they float through a vast ocean alone. There is only a realization of another present and isolated as oneself.
Take notice of those passing you by. Look in their eyes [...]

A Celebration…

An appropriate dedication for one who sacrificed and loved his country:
In Honor of Ed Freeman
You’re an 19 year old kid. You’re critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8–1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or [...]

In the moment…

How many times have you experienced the chaos of so many responsibilities and tasks that you are ready to collapse? What exacerbates a state of overwhelming burdens is the subsequent panic and immobility preventing any action and progress for clearing the infinite-appearing list.
A small shift in our perception and handling of the task overload can bring a [...]

Distraction

How many are the ways we seek distractions, the activities that help us get through life? We pursue fulfillment and some semblance of meaning for our lives in a myriad of ways. We invest ourselves in others, in art, in reading, work, sex, self-medication, religion, shelter, food, and many, many more things.
The question to ask [...]