Generosity...in the wilderness?
In my last reflection on the Israelites, God focuses on the responsibilities of the priests and Levites. In the midst of conflict and uncertainty and fear in the wilderness, He tells Aaron’s family...
Faith & Family Business
Your responsibility in the wilderness
August 25, 2025
As the Israelites continue their wilderness experience — a time marked by unrealized hopes, recurring disappointment, and what seems like perpetual conflict — they are perhaps in a place to really...
Instructions in the wilderness
August 18, 2025
After several posts on conflict in the wilderness, I continue to work with the idea that the wilderness experience has important and far-reaching implications for us. The wilderness is a place of...
Wilderness conflict with outsiders
August 11, 2025
My last two posts dealt with conflict in the wilderness experience — the times in our lives when we are in an emotionally difficult, disorienting, even depressing phase of existence, often...
A wilderness conflict of the spirit
August 3, 2025
One of the markers of a wilderness experience is conflict, which, as I mentioned in my last post, can take several forms. Sometimes conflict occurs around your changing role within the family...
A wilderness full of conflict
July 27, 2025
My last reflection contemplated the time before the wilderness phases of our lives, when a physical, spiritual, psychological, family, or business issue prompted a journey through a difficult or...
Life before the wilderness
July 20, 2025
My first reflection about our wilderness experience defined the wilderness as a difficult, inhospitable, disorienting, and sometimes even dangerous place we pass through on our way to something...
Our Wilderness Experience
July 13, 2025
Between October of 2024 and April of 2025, I reflected on Moses, his call to lead the Israelites, and his experiences bringing them out of slavery in Egypt. They were headed toward the promised land...
Hope as a bridge between faith and action
July 6, 2025
My last two reflections explored hope in the context of families in business. First I looked at hope as a part of our character: born in trials, shaped through perseverance. Then I wrote about how...
When hope isn't working
June 30, 2025
Last week I wrote about the virtue of hope. Beyond being just a wish, hope is shaped in our character through perseverance. To paraphrase Paul, hope becomes a part of who you are based on where you’...