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Empty Your Hands and Your Heart

March 29, 2012 Joey Cope 2

If you’ll just let go, your hands will be free to . . . comfort a friend in pain carry a stranger’s burden steady yourself when your world is rocked graciously accept a gift smooth the wrinkles from the fabric of life If you’ll let go . . . empty [read more]

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Breaking with Complaining

March 21, 2012 Joey Cope 0

When did I fall in love with complaining? It makes me miserable. It makes those around me miserable. It makes me see huge problems that aren’t big at all. It makes me miss good things that are truly huge. Complaining makes me small. Today, I choose not to complain. I [read more]

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Spring Clean

March 14, 2012 Joey Cope 2

Just as Mother Nature uses the spring season to renew and reset, we all need a season to lose the clutter in our lives. My office at work and my closet at home are physical reminders of this personal need. But it’s the clutter of the heart that truly pulls [read more]

Foster Dog Revisited 16

March 4, 2012 Joey Cope 2

Once again, we reach back into the hallowed halls of Twitterdom to retrieve a few of Foster Dog’s micro-adventures from years past. Follow us at http://twitter.com/joeycope Watching White House Easter Egg Roll on TV, Foster Dog noted, “Much more entertaining if they would roll squirrels – or even the kids.” [read more]

Mind Over Brain Matter

March 1, 2012 Joey Cope 0

As peacemakers interact with individuals in conflict, we sometimes marvel and sometimes grieve over our perceptions of the way people think. Easy decisions from the view of the “neutral and impartial third party” slip past combatants as they maneuver to either claim absolute victory in the moment or to navigate [read more]