Matthew 9

Good Friday Mourning

2026-03-27T19:19:35-05:00April 3rd, 2026|Tags: , , |

A fourth-century church manual, the Apostolic Constitutions, called Good Friday a "day of mourning, not a day of festive Joy." Historically, many have called Good Friday to be a day of sorrow and fasting. In our busy work activities, we rarely take time for reflection or sorrow for our brokenness and the brokenness of the world. We rarely mourn and ...

The Power of Empathy: Part I

2024-12-30T13:06:17-06:00January 13th, 2025|Tags: , , |

Empathy as a Workplace Superpower is an article posted on forbes.com. that references a study claiming that 63% of CEOs struggle with consistently demonstrating empathy. Yet, the top 7% of top performing companies claim that empathy is core to their culture.   Empathy is a quality we should embrace, but sometimes difficult to express.  The Oxford Dictionary defines empathy as, “the ...

Workplace Stress Abounds

2024-08-09T11:30:41-05:00August 7th, 2024|Tags: , , |

According to a Gallup State of the Workplace 2023 survey, 44% of global employees experienced daily workplace stress in 2023. This was an all-time high for the second year in a row!  Worse yet, we have a growing mental health crisis leaving us short of psychiatrists and behavioral health professionals to care for our employees. Kathy and I recently ...

The Toll of Loneliness

2024-08-09T11:56:35-05:00July 18th, 2024|Tags: , , |

According to a 2023American Psychology Association study, 26% of workers claim to have experienced feelings of loneliness and isolation. Curiously, if you work in customer or patient service work, that feeling of loneliness soars to 35%.  You would think that loneliness would not be an issue for those engaging with people all day, but it is. If you field ...

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