Weekly Message For March 31, 2008: Unveiling the Mystery of Self

March 31st, 2008

As we prepare for our 2008 iask Membership campaign this spring, I want all of us to be thinking prayerfully about how we spend our time daily, weekly, monthly and how much of that time is devoted to caring for ourselves versus caring for and about others.iask is an organization By, About, & For professional [...]

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Weekly Message For March 24, 2008: Asking for What You Need

March 23rd, 2008

i-ask: what does that mean Sophia? What am I asking for? Who are you serving? What does your emphasis on the SELF mean? What kind of success are you looking for?
Let me start by offering two definitions of what it means to ASK for something:
From Webster’s online:
ask /æsk, ɑsk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ask, [...]

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Senator Obama’s Speech on Race: Tell Us What You Think Sisters!

March 18th, 2008

Transcript New York TimesBarack Obama’s Speech on RaceMarch 18, 2008Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; [...]

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Weekly Message For March 17. 2008: Care of the Self

March 16th, 2008

I read a great book in 1993 when I was but 26 years old called “Care of the Soul” By Thomas Moore (See http://www.careofthesoul.net/ for more on the author and his writings since that time) and it has stuck with me ever since because it offered a philosophy for living that involves accepting our humanity [...]

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Weekly Message For March 10. 2008: Me, Myself & I

March 10th, 2008

This month we will be continuing our series on Relationships, but we are going to shift our focus slightly to our relationship with ourselves–SELF.
Who are you, why do you think as you do, love as you do, give as you do, worship as you do, react as you do, feel as you do when someone [...]

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