Posts by LisaYoung

Before You Can Play…

Posted by LisaYoung in Big Ideas | 0 comments

When I was a child, the world looked a lot less complicated than it does today. The “rules” were a lot easier to navigate.

Share with others. Say “please” and “thank you”. Take turns.

I was having an interesting spiritual conversation the other day. The discussion leader, a good fiend of mine, made the point that we need a common language if we are going to understand each other. There was a lot of talk around the nature of establishing “rules” for a society, and at one point, we came to a playground analogy.

We were discussing how, on the playground, children don’t jockey for position, and most aren’t bullies. In fact the ones that bully at a young age were either raised to be bullies, or they just haven’t learned how to interact with others yet. At which point my friend made the following statement.

Your Old Testament

Posted by LisaYoung in Big Ideas, Faith | 7 comments

I have an incredibly good friend that did me a huge favor this week.

It’s Spring break around these parts, and that meant BOTH my boys would be home all week long, bored to tears as Mom and Dad are both working. Granted, I work from home, but we’ve been very clear with the boys about the boundaries I’ve set about work time and non-work time. Besides, I’ve got blog posts to write, a screenplay in development, and a few other writing projects going on. Not to mention coaching calls for both myself and my clients.

So it’s not a vacation for Mom.

In light of this, my friend Mike volunteered to whisk my kids away for a few days, and then another friend volunteered to host my teenager. This gave me plenty of time to complete projects at record speed around the house and in my business.

It also gave me a lot of time to marinate in the silence of my home.

The Sun And Moon In You

Posted by LisaYoung in Big Ideas | 2 comments

Love  is a dangerous thing.

We can give and give and give and never receive it. We can take and take and take and never give it.

Love has a never-ending supply. It’s not like oxygen. It doesn’t get used up and expelled.

Then why is it so difficult for us to embrace our True Self with love?

It would seem we get busy doing one of two things that prevents us from fully falling in love with our True Self:

1. Hiding our “mistakes” and “pretending” our True Self isn’t who we really are (pretending we don’t exist)

2. Comparing ourselves to something outside our True Self, and deciding we’re either “not enough” or “too much” if we stand in our uniqueness for too long.

And yes, I speak from experience on this.

Training Wheels

Posted by LisaYoung in Big Ideas, Family | 6 comments

I live in a house full of testosterone. Two boys (three, if you count my husband) can really push you to your limits sometimes. They’re “all boy” and sometimes a bit too competitive. My sons were born about 10 years apart, tho, which makes some of the competition rather comical.

Take my youngest, for example. He’s been wanting to ride a “big boy bike” for years now. And I’m not talking about a 10-speed. He wants a motorcycle. Why? Because my teenager does, of course.

Shortcuts

Posted by LisaYoung in Big Ideas, Family | 4 comments

Every week day, my son and I make the three-quarter mile hike to his afternoon Kindergarten classroom. The way our house is situated, we can either walk “through the neighborhood” or take a “short cut” out the back yard, thereby saving about a quarter mile on the journey.

Since I make this round trip twice a day, sometimes it’s nice to take the short cut. Especially if my son wants to ride his scooter, in which case I have to nearly run to keep up (and I’m not a runner, in case you were wondering).

But when the weather’s nice, or when my son is feeling ambitious, we take the long way.

And it makes all the difference.