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A Smartphone suggestion supports a new habit

Often, at the start of a meeting, presentation, or entertainment event, people in the audience are reminded to turn off their cell phones for the duration of the program. But I was recently at a place where the speaker actually asked everyone to take out their Smartphones and use them, right then and there. I’m sure everyone else was just as surprised as I was, especially considering where we were, and who was making the request. The person speaking was the pastor of our parish, [...]

By bettyliedtke|January 9th, 2015|Columns, Faith|Comments Off

What weighs us down can build us up

“I know God will never give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.” I don’t remember the first time I read or heard that saying, but I do know it made me smile and nod my head. I can relate. I’m sure most people can. And I smile and nod whenever I come across it, or when it pops into my mind for some reason. When I feel weighed down with responsibilities and obligations, for instance, or [...]

By bettyliedtke|November 28th, 2014|Columns, Faith, Holidays, Quotes and Sayings|Comments Off

An early-morning conversation brings the answer to a prayer

I arranged for my columns to get posted on my blog automatically while I was in Uganda, but this one somehow slipped off the schedule. It should have been posted on August 8. I hope you will still find it timely and relevant. I was sitting outside on the steps of our deck one morning last week, notebook and pen in hand. I was doing the morning ritual I refer to as my Prayer Exercise, which is a combination of praying, journaling, and asking God [...]

By bettyliedtke|August 25th, 2014|Columns, Faith, Family, Writing|Comments Off

The first Father’s Day without Dad is memorable and meaningful

Father’s Day is going to be bittersweet this year. The sweet part is that my husband has just returned home from a business trip, and we’ll be able to spend the weekend – particularly Sunday – catching up, relaxing, and celebrating Father’s Day. The not-so-sweet part is that this will be the first Father’s Day without my dad, who passed away in January. It still gnaws at me that I can’t call him every Sunday, as we’ve done ever since first moving away from the [...]

By bettyliedtke|June 13th, 2014|Columns, Faith, Family, Holidays|Comments Off

Watching, learning, and following are first steps to leading and teaching

“See one, do one, teach one.” If I recall correctly, that was a line I first heard years ago on an episode of “ER” – one of my all-time favorite TV shows – by a doctor who was encouraging and guiding a medical student in a procedure the med student had never done before. The line came back to me last weekend when I was in the “See One” phase of a training I’m now going through. I haven’t switched careers and started med school. [...]

By bettyliedtke|June 6th, 2014|Columns, Faith, Uganda, Values|Comments Off

A week in the chapel starts a journey for life

I just accomplished a goal I set for myself almost a year and a half ago, and I feel pretty good about it. The goal isn’t an end in itself, it’s more of a milestone. Still, it’s pretty significant, and I’m going to take a little time to simply enjoy and celebrate the fact that I did it. The goal was to spend a week in the Perpetual Adoration Chapel at my church. Not all at once, of course, but an hour at a time. [...]

By bettyliedtke|May 30th, 2014|Accountability, Columns, Faith|Comments Off

Learning to juggle leads to multiple successes

Sometimes the lessons we learn aren’t just the ones that are actually being taught. What we get out of them can go way beyond what was intended. That happened to me last weekend, during one of the sessions at a “Lead Like Jesus” Reconnect in Chicago. The session was about leadership, but the lesson was about juggling. Each of us was placed in one of four groups, based on our level of competence and enthusiasm for juggling. Then we were given a partner, a set [...]

By bettyliedtke|May 2nd, 2014|Columns, Faith, Success|Comments Off

No longer bound by an age-old tradition

It happened again last week. And, just as it has in the past, it caught me completely off-guard. I was at 5:15 Mass on Ash Wednesday, and hoping that my stomach wouldn’t start growling during the quiet parts of the Mass. This was a possibility not only because it was getting close to dinner time, but because I had followed the Lenten restrictions for Ash Wednesday, which are to abstain from eating meat, to refrain from eating between meals, and to have only one full [...]

By bettyliedtke|March 14th, 2014|Accountability, Columns, Faith, Health and Well-being, Holidays|2 Comments

A gentle, wonderful man comes home

The world has lost a gentle and wonderful man. Most of the world never knew him, of course, and has no idea what a treasure he was – or how much he will be missed, and by how many people. But I do. After being healthy, active, and extremely social well into his 80’s, my father fell victim to a number of health issues and incidents that kept him either in the hospital or in a care center since early November. He passed away at [...]

By bettyliedtke|February 14th, 2014|Columns, Faith, Family|19 Comments

Memories and traditions warm up the holidays

When I was very young, Santa Claus used to visit our house on Christmas Eve. Not in the middle of the night – leaving presents under the tree when we were nestled all snug in our beds – but early in the evening, when we were still up and wide awake. I remember one year when we needed to make a quick trip to the grocery store on Christmas Eve. We kids were distraught, afraid we might miss Santa’s visit. Although my mom assured us [...]

By bettyliedtke|December 20th, 2013|Columns, Faith, Family, Holidays|4 Comments

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