๐Œ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐“๐ก๐š๐ง ๐‰๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š ๐“๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž: ๐ˆ๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐š ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐‡๐ž๐š๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐‹๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ

โ€œ๐‘ฎ๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’‘๐’“๐’๐’—๐’Š๐’…๐’† ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’‚๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’˜๐’† ๐’๐’†๐’†๐’… ๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’‚๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’•๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‘๐’๐’†๐’๐’•๐’š.โ€ ๐‘ณ๐’š๐’“๐’Š๐’„๐’” ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’”๐’๐’๐’ˆ ๐‘ป๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ท๐’๐’†๐’๐’•๐’š, ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’ ๐‘บ๐’„๐’‰๐’–๐’•๐’•๐’† (๐Ÿ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ) Can you remember the experience of sitting at the kitchen or dining room table growing up? At first glance you might say, โ€œWhatโ€™s so memorable about that oak table?โ€ After all, …

๐ˆ๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ญ ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐€๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ข๐ค๐ž: ๐ˆ๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐€๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐–๐š๐ฒ

โ€œ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’š๐’ƒ๐’† ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‹๐’๐’–๐’“๐’๐’†๐’š ๐’Š๐’”๐’โ€™๐’• ๐’”๐’ ๐’Ž๐’–๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’–๐’• ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‚๐’๐’š๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ. ๐‘ด๐’‚๐’š๐’ƒ๐’† ๐’Š๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’–๐’• ๐’–๐’-๐’ƒ๐’†๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š๐’•๐’‰๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’Š๐’”๐’โ€™๐’• ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’๐’๐’š ๐’š๐’๐’–, ๐’”๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’† ๐’˜๐’‰๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’˜๐’†๐’“๐’† ๐’Ž๐’†๐’‚๐’๐’• ๐’•๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’† ๐’Š๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‡๐’Š๐’“๐’”๐’• ๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’†.โ€ ๐‘ท๐’‚๐’–๐’๐’ ๐‘ช๐’๐’†๐’๐’‰๐’, ๐’‚๐’–๐’•๐’‰๐’๐’“ ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘จ๐’๐’„๐’‰๐’†๐’Ž๐’Š๐’”๐’• ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ท๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’“๐’Š๐’Ž๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’† One of the joys of living here at the Jersey Shore is heading out …

๐ˆ ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ’๐ ๐›๐ž ๐†๐จ๐จ๐ ๐š๐ญ ๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ: ๐‚๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐›๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐–๐ก๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐Ž๐ฎ๐ซ ๐’๐ž๐ž๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž

“๐™Ž๐™ฅ๐™š๐™–๐™  ๐™‡๐™ค๐™ง๐™™, ๐™›๐™ค๐™ง ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ง ๐™จ๐™š๐™ง๐™ซ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ก๐™ž๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ.” ๐Ÿญ ๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐—น ๐Ÿฏ:๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ This past weekend, I was deeply humbled and grateful to be honored by St. Catharineโ€“St. Margaret Parish in Spring Lake, NJ, for my contributions as Trustee, Pastoral Council President, Finance Council member, and for leading our Bereavement Ministry. In reflecting on this chapter of my …

๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐€๐ซ๐ž ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ง ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐†๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ ๐๐š๐œ๐ค๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ค?

โ€œ๐‘ช๐’๐’Ž๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’Ž๐’†, ๐’‚๐’๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’˜๐’‰๐’ ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’˜๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’ƒ๐’–๐’“๐’…๐’†๐’๐’†๐’…, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘ฐ ๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’•. ๐‘ป๐’‚๐’Œ๐’† ๐’Ž๐’š ๐’š๐’๐’Œ๐’† ๐’–๐’‘๐’๐’ ๐’š๐’๐’–โ€ฆ ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’Ž๐’š ๐’š๐’๐’Œ๐’† ๐’Š๐’” ๐’†๐’‚๐’”๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’Ž๐’š ๐’ƒ๐’–๐’“๐’…๐’†๐’ ๐’Š๐’” ๐’๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’•.โ€ (๐‘ด๐’‚๐’•๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’˜ 11:28) In many ways, the grief journey is like carrying a backpack and a metaphor for the emotional weight we carry after the …

๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฃ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—”๐—ฑ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—•๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ: ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ผ ๐—š๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฆ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ?

One of the most effective things you can do during a major life or career transition is an exercise to help you develop a Personal Advisory Board. Ideally, your Advisory Board is a carefully chosen group of individuals who you trust and who know you well. Each Advisor should bring something different to your Board, …

๐†๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐“๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐„๐ฑ๐ญ๐ซ๐š ๐ˆ๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ

“๐‘ฌ๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š ๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’Ž๐’† ๐‘ฐ ๐’‘๐’“๐’‚๐’š๐’†๐’… ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’†๐’™๐’•๐’“๐’‚ ๐’Š๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’” ๐’”๐’ ๐‘ฐ ๐’„๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’‚๐’•๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‰๐’Š๐’Ž ๐’‚ ๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’•๐’๐’† ๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’“.โ€ ๐‘จ ๐’‡๐’‚๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’“ ๐’“๐’†๐’‡๐’๐’†๐’„๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’๐’๐’—๐’† ๐’‰๐’† ๐’‰๐’‚๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’”๐’๐’, ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’”๐’‰๐’๐’“๐’• ๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’Ž, “๐‘ฌ๐’™๐’•๐’“๐’‚ ๐‘ฐ๐’๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ๐’”” (๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿต) A few weeks ago, my wife, son, and I attended a short film festival in Manasquan, NJ called Asbury Shorts which has …

Planting New Seeds of Hope This Spring

โ€œYes, there will be growth in the springโ€, the character Chauncey Gardner in the movie, Being There (1979) That quote above by the late Peter Sellers from the movie ๐๐ž๐ข๐ง๐  ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž is one of my favorite movies of all time where he plays a reclusive gardener named Chance and is thrust into the world of …