Articles by Gary Roe

What I Need to Learn From My Cat

[dropcap2 variation="coffee"]I[/dropcap2] come home after work, my cat runs to the door to greet me. If she’s out, somehow she knows my car from all the other cars in our apartment parking lot. When I cut the engine and open the car door, there she is. She runs from...

Do You Dare Step Off the Treadmill?

[dropcap2 variation="coffee"]Y[/dropcap2]ou blew it again. That thing – the one that you hate – that you swore (and this time you meant it) you would never do again. Yep. You did it. Again. Your hearts sighs, weary of this cycle of try-fail-try harder-fail again. You...

One Sure Way to Stay Stuck, Frustrated, and Angry

[dropcap2 variation="coffee"]I[/dropcap2]t’s as old as the Garden of Eden. “She gave it to me.” “The serpent deceived me.” Now, after thousands of years of practice, we’ve developed the blame game into an art form. Jesus cuts right through this. “But the things that...

Neda's Story: Trying to Control Life? Good Luck

[dropcap2 variation="coffee"]N[/dropcap2]eda suffered from dementia. She couldn’t follow a conversation. She’d repeat the same phrase over and over. She fell often. Yet, Neda would pop off with some of the most amazing, random statements. Once she pointed a long...

Are You Breaking Your Speed Limit?

[dropcap2 variation="coffee"]P[/dropcap2]eople have told me I have two speeds: full-speed-ahead and drop-down-dead. I’m working on that. And it’s frustrating. I’ve been used to doing things the same way, at the same breakneck speed, for so long. Sometimes I lay in bed...

Tornadoes: What Can We Do?

[dropcap2 variation="coffee"]M[/dropcap2]onday afternoon, I climbed onto the elliptical at the gym not knowing I would spend the next hour transfixed, watching live coverage of a massive tornado ripping through Moore, Oklahoma. Having survived a strikingly similar...

A Prayer for Moore, Oklahoma

[dropcap2 variation="coffee"]F[/dropcap2]ather, our hearts go out to the people of Moore and to their relatives and loved ones. Grant them peace in the midst of the aftermath of the storm. Bring comfort. Encourage and strengthen.Bring physical healing to those...

Sally's Story: No Time to Waste

[dropcap2 variation="coffee"]S[/dropcap2]ally had a stroke. She went from her home to an assisted living facility to a nursing home in a span of a few weeks. Her world was shrinking fast. Yet, she always seemed to be smiling. Her face lit up when you walked in the...

How to Make Powerfully Good Decisions

[dropcap2 variation="coffee"]I[/dropcap2]n the last post, I talked about the shadow – the unseen thing that drives most of us. I don’t know what your shadow is. We’ve all got one. Mine was the need to prove myself valuable. It drove almost everything I thought, said,...

What Drives You? (It May Not Be You)

[dropcap2 variation="coffee"]M[/dropcap2]any of us are driven by a shadow. For most of us, it’s been with us a long time. An old fear. A hidden compulsion. A secret desire. If this shadow goes unrecognized, it will go unchallenged. We will feel swept along in life by...