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Previous Reflections
Writing your Personal Values Statement as a Catholic
November 25, 2024
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, It is so good to resume our series on personal values statements after a brief...
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How Inner Polarizations Lead to External Conflicts
November 11, 2024
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, Since Tuesday, November 5, I’ve been feeling ill with a bad cold, and it is...
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Human Formation and Purgatory - Revisited
October 28, 2024
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, Last November I wrote a reflection titled Human Formation in Purgatory? Yes, Indeed emphasizing the...
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Receiving the Light of Natural Aspirational Values from Non-Catholic Sources
October 14, 2024
Dear Souls & Hearts Member, As a reminder, I noted in the first reflection in this series: “Your values are...
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Discerning your Aspirational Values with Catholic Saints and Traditional Spiritualities
September 23, 2024
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, Especially in the election season, especially in this U.S. election season, I am reminded that...
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Understanding Values More Deeply
September 11, 2024
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, Since 2017, author and business coach Scott Jeffrey has made a living out of helping...
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What Are Your Personal Values?
August 26, 2024
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, We started our series with on July 22, 2024 with the reflection titled Your Vision,...
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Writing your personal vision statement as a Catholic
August 12, 2024
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, “Fr. Emil,” the pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility parish in Garrison Keillor’s fictional...
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Your vision, mission and values
July 22, 2024
Dear Souls and Hearts member, When I was six years old as a first grader in September 1975, Diana Ross...
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Discipline With Love
July 13, 2024
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, If you have serious difficulties with self-discipline, it’s going to be hard for you to...
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Discovering Love Languages
June 24, 2024
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, Chapter 7 of Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell’s 1997 book, The 5 Love Languages of...
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The Love Language of Service and Your Parts
June 10, 2024
Dear Souls and Hearts Member, On we go with the final love language that Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell describe...
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