Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » Contentment https://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Contentment or More. Choose Ye This Day Whom You Will Serve. https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/contentment-choose-ye-day-will-serve/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/contentment-choose-ye-day-will-serve/#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2017 21:42:05 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=6209 No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not content. —Ecclesiastes 1.8 This summer while on vacation, I read the delightful Joanne Harris book Peaches for Monsieur le Curé. There were a number of times I took out my phone and typed out a line […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/contentment-choose-ye-day-will-serve/feed/ 2 Lent Day 10… Who Is Truly Wealthy: The One Who Has Enough or The One Who Always Wants More? https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-10-truly-wealthy-one-enough-one-always-wants/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-10-truly-wealthy-one-enough-one-always-wants/#comments Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:00:27 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5919 There’s a story about the author Joseph Heller, who finds himself at a party with a bunch of Wall Street hedge-fund managers. A man comes up to him and points to a young guy in his 20′s. The man says, “See that guy over there? He made more money last year than you will make […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-10-truly-wealthy-one-enough-one-always-wants/feed/ 1 Crickets https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/crickets/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/crickets/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2017 17:59:19 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5858 Crickets. That’s what you hear when you’re sitting around a campfire late in the evening. Not the sound of Fox News or CNN. Not the firing of weapons from Call of Duty. Just the joyful song of crickets. It’s also the description we give when there is absolutely no response to something… when people are […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2017/crickets/feed/ 2 Where You Are Right Now https://www.northwestleader.com/2014/right-now/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2014/right-now/#comments Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:12:03 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=3895 I’m sure you know of a professional athlete who was not doing well on a particular team in that particular city… Then, that athlete got traded to another team in another city—and all the sudden they thrived. It was as if the old place just had the wrong mojo. Sometimes, we think we’re professional athletes […]

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