Mary Scifres
Get Unstuck
On an evening drive to a friend’s mountain cabin, my Geo Metro got stuck in a snowdrift. My husband and I called it a night and hiked the...
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Mary Scifres
- Jul 4
- 1 min
Tired of jumping hurdles alone?
When my school formed its first female track team, I tried being a runner like my older sisters. But in both distance and sprints, I just...
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Mary Scifres
- Jun 29
- 2 min
Are you tired of being tired?
In Jan Karon’s book, At Home in Mitford, Father Tim is an Episcopalian priest who works nonstop. From a fear of disappointing anyone,...
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Mary Scifres
- Feb 7
- 2 min
Recovery from Burnout: A Message of Hope and Help
As a new year begins, many of us are feeling the long-term fatigue of an ongoing pandemic, social unrest, church divisiveness, and an...
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Mary Scifres
- Jan 3
- 3 min
WHERE ARE YOU GOING THIS YEAR?
In 1975, Diana Ross sang: "Do you know where you’re going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you?"(1) These questions...
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Mary Scifres
- Nov 28, 2022
- 2 min
A World With Hope for Better Days
In one of our family’s favorite series, “Lord of the Rings,” the middle film “The Two Towers” is my least favorite. It’s so full of war...
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Mary Scifres
- Sep 27, 2022
- 3 min
Resources Can Renew Our Energy!
Are you so tired you feel it in your bones? At one point in the second year of the pandemic, I was clicking along like any good coach,...
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Mary Scifres
- Sep 20, 2022
- 2 min
Play to Your Strengths to Energize Your Life & Work
Michael Jordan captured the imagination of millions when he left basketball the year his father died to pursue his father’s favorite...
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Mary Scifres
- Sep 14, 2022
- 1 min
Simplify to Energize
Sir Isaac Newton wrote, “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” Working and...
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Mary Scifres
- Sep 5, 2022
- 2 min
Set Your Intention to Grow Love
Joshua and Anna met in mid-life and were overjoyed to finally find a love worthy of committing themselves in marriage. Coming into this...
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Mary Scifres
- Jun 23, 2022
- 3 min
Hold Me Now
For decades, youth groups and team-building consultants around the world have depended on “trust walks” and “falling” in a circle to...
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Mary Scifres
- Mar 23, 2022
- 2 min
Joy and Hope - Fueled by a Complaint-Free World
Many years ago, I spoke to a women’s group who gifted me with a book and a pink bracelet that proclaimed their commitment to “a...
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Mary Scifres
- Mar 23, 2022
- 2 min
Blessed to be a Blessing
In many Eastern traditions, offerings of food and flowers are a common practice during formal worship services, at temples and local...
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Mary Scifres
- Mar 23, 2022
- 2 min
Connected by Gratitude
When our son applied for college, his teachers gave a lot of time writing letters of recommendation, talking with him about college...
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