Author Archives: Don Follis

Just make the call, for crying out loud…

If you know me well, you know one of my strengths is that I’m adaptable.  As my Strengths Finder 2.0 assessment says: “You live in the moment.  You don’t see the future as a fixed destination.  Instead, you see it as a place that you create out of the choices that you make right now. ContinueContinue reading “Just make the call, for crying out loud…”

What would you name your boat?

The last 10 days I’ve been up in northern Michigan relaxing and watching the boats come and go along Grand Traverse Bay.  All the big cruisers have names written along the side.  Sometimes it’s pretty obvious what the name means; other times it’s not.As I walked along the Elk Rapids, MI, harbor one day lookingContinueContinue reading “What would you name your boat?”

A vital, sobering question to all who want to more clearly be a citizen in God’s Kingdom

The Well of Grief Those who will not slip beneath      the still surface on the well of griefturning downward through its black water      to the place we cannot breathewill never know the source from which we drink,      the secret water, cold and clear,nor find in the darkness glimmering      the small roundContinueContinue reading “A vital, sobering question to all who want to more clearly be a citizen in God’s Kingdom”

Trying to clarify a person’s belief system

Sometimes when I’m talking with people … including pastors, the group I talk with the most … I can’t really figure out their belief system. So I ask them to complete the following sentences. [I was introduced to this by Coaching4Clergy coach Dr. Mario Garcia.] I’ve seen this exercise give the person I’m talking with,ContinueContinue reading “Trying to clarify a person’s belief system”

To discover the truth you just have to ask lots and lots of questions…

A seeker after truth approached the master teacher one day. The teacher said, “If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.””I know,” said the seeker, “An overwhelming passion for it.””No,” the master teacher said, “An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.”Writer and orthopedic surgeon JeremyContinueContinue reading “To discover the truth you just have to ask lots and lots of questions…”