[frame align=”left”]For a number of years, I have maintained a separate blog, PeaceBytes. I am moving the posts from that site here. I hope to continue the PeaceBytes domains and have them link to joeycope.com in the near future. In the meantime, please excuse my ongoing construction of this category of my site.[/frame]
Funny, how things that are seemingly disconnected become joined by thoughts and ideas and hopes and dreams — and even nightmares. Yesterday, as I taught a Bible class I touched on the recent tragedies in Paris and Lebanon, and a little further back, in Kenya. And one of the finest men I [read more]
I have to admit that there are times that I would like to close down my social media accounts. To bend a phrase of Winston Churchill, “Never was so much bad said about so few by so many.” It is the ease and spontaneity of social media that makes it so great [read more]
Perhaps one of my favorite songs of all times is “Sounds of Silence” by Simon & Garfunkel. Perhaps because it is deeply thoughtful and trumpets the need to fill the silence with important words. Necessary words. And perhaps I like it because it assumes that I have the words that are [read more]
Thinking back through a recent mediation, I was trying to honestly evaluate how I’d done as a facilitator of the session. Normally, in these times of reflection, I discover a few things that bother me — missed opportunities, inelegant transitions, botched guidance. Oddly, on this one, I was pretty content [read more]
All my life, I heard “Don’t burn your bridges!” (Okay, so early on I actually heard “Don’t burn your britches!” . . . but I digress.) The idea, of course, is that you shouldn’t make decisions that don’t allow you to back up — to reverse your course if you are [read more]
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