Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » Blessing https://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Advent Day 14: Those Times When You Think You’re Being The Blessing And Then You Realize It’s The Other Way Around https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-14-times-think-youre-blessing-realize-way-around/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-14-times-think-youre-blessing-realize-way-around/#comments Sat, 16 Dec 2017 19:31:05 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6285 Tomorrow is our church’s annual Toy Give. The presents are wrapped, labeled, and stacked. Nearly 500 kids will receive a gift at the party… and there will be prizes, a dancing panda, food, pictures with Santa and Mrs. Claus, and a few surprises too. It’s one of those events that makes your face hurt because […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-14-times-think-youre-blessing-realize-way-around/feed/ 2 Advent Day 9: Grace Takes Us To Unexpected Places https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-9-grace-takes-us-unexpected-places/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-9-grace-takes-us-unexpected-places/#comments Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:23:03 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6265 *picture above: a statue of Mary in a church we visited this summer in Narni (an ancient hilltop village in the Umbrian region of Italy) And Mary said, My soul magnifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my savior. For he took notice of his lowly servant girl, and now generation after generation forever shall […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/advent-day-9-grace-takes-us-unexpected-places/feed/ 1 May Leadership Be For You A True Adventure Of Growth https://www.northwestleader.com/2014/may-leadership-true-adventure-growth/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2014/may-leadership-true-adventure-growth/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:00:46 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=4580 The following is from John O’Donohue’s book To Bless The Space Between Us – a book of blessings FOR A LEADER: May you have the grace and wisdom To act kindly, learning To distinguish between what is Personal and what is not. May you be hospitable to criticism. May you never put yourself at the […]

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