All Posts Tagged With: "self"
Inside The Minds of Rednecks – And Consequences
I recently had breakfast and invested my Saturday morning with a Redneck. It was not his idea. My truck needed repair and I wanted a sure fix. A sure fix that did not cost me a bundle of anxiety and an empty pocket book. (Pocket Book is a funny term). I’ll call my Redneck friend […]
24Aug2010 | Ohg Rea Tone | 32 comments | Continued
The Root of Obama’s Calm is Humility
Why is Barack Obama so calm. People have been throwing rocks at him for two years that we know about – and he smiles and nods his head, he remains calm. The world of finance collapses and Obama remains calm. John McCain calls him a Muslim terrorist and he remains calm. What is going on […]
24Oct2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | 8 comments | Continued
Divine Intervention and Painful Faith
We once did an internship as a hospital chaplain. We were assigned to an acute rehab unit. Most of the patients were recovering from a stroke or hip surgery or a like condition – they were medically stable but unable to return home. A twelve year old boy was hit by a car and injured […]
19Oct2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Divine Intervention and Painful Faith | Continued
Rev. Wright’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Here we go again. An angry man, whether justified or not, pokes a stick in the eye of the object of his anger. Then he wonders why the object of his anger does not like him. Barack Obama says, let us have a healthy dialogue. Well, get the stick out of my eye and maybe […]
20Mar2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on Rev. Wright’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | Continued
Maslow and dumpster diving
Son, Abraham Maslow was something of a management scientist. He published a work in 1943 describing a ‘hierarchy of needs’ which he used to describe human motivation. Dumpster diving is generally thought of as meeting the basic need of subsistence. For this reason dumpster diving is considered a function of the poor, the homeless, […]
24Nov2007 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued