Do you remember ever playing the game Follow the Leader when you were a child? According to one site I viewed, game play is described as, “One player, the Leader, begins moving around with actions that the rest of the players must mimic. Anything — including wildly flailing his hands or furiously scratching his head …
Author: Julie Powell, Ed.D.
With over 30 years in higher education, I have a passion for seeing people, not only succeed at life, but to flourish in their God-given space personally, professionally, and spiritually.
Spoiler Alert
Recently, while reading Chad Veach’s Faith Forward Future, as I came across his description of what he calls Spoiler Guy, I was reminded of one of my own Spoiler Alert stories, which I will share briefly in the paragraphs to follow. Should you be unfamiliar with the term Spoiler Alert, it is defined by the …
Unhurried Life
“Hurry rushes toward the destination and fails to enjoy the journey."Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life If you happen to know my dad very well, then perhaps we can agree on the fact that you likely have rarely, if ever, witnessed the man being in a hurry. The only circumstance where I recall my dad ever …
Hellish Hallway
My friend, if you are reading this today and have never experienced the agony of being Stuck In-Between or in a Hellish Hallway, as Jentezen Franklin refers to it in Acres of Diamonds, then I beg you to share with the rest of this world your amazing secret. Better yet--write a book, generate significant income, …
Uncharted Territory
Deep inside of my soul, God created an adventurous spirit; it might not get out much anymore, but every once in a while, a spark manages to ignite. Now, before your mind imagines me heading out into Uncharted Territory like Lewis and Clark, braving the unknown, camping among the wild animals, the reality is more …
Strange Gifts
Do you possess a God-given talent that is so unique that some might call it a Strange Gift? There’s just this skill that comes so naturally to you that it is like breathing, but others are baffled, because for them, this quality proves so challenging. One Strange Gift bestowed upon me relates to organization, and …
That Voice!
Conceiving that no one else could possibly share my experiences of hearing a voice-over during a television advertisement and feeling the urgency to identify who it belongs to, imagine the utter delight in having a You, Too? moment when reading Chad Veach’s Faith Forward Future. Chad seems to be more disciplined than me because when …
Life Lessons from Benji
by Dr. Kelvin Moore, Union University, from 2021 Fall Faculty Workshop My wife and I live on a road. We don't live on a street or in a subdivision. Five additional houses, four of whom were family, exist on this approximately mile and one-half road. The road is country and county, we don't live inside …
Big Doors, Little Hinges
Doors and Hinges seem to be appearing often in my reading lately, and every time it happens, I am reminded of a segment from Build It Bigger, a video we view in our sport facilities class, where Danny Forster examines how engineers and welders solve a problem with the large windowed doors that create the …
First Day Experience: Faculty Workshop
On my computer reside some unpublished drafts of a series about First Day Experiences in various situations, and I share a little on this topic in earlier posts such as The First 48 and FDE: College Athletics, but today the focus is on a positive opening day to a new semester that occurred this week …
Flourishing @ Life 