Tool #1: The Cradle of Compassion, Pt. 1

by Lindsey | Jun 11, 2025 | The Tools to Build Good Lives

Compassion is the most important virtue, it is the outgrowth of Grace and the precursor to Love. It is impossible to kill someone with Compassion and Compassion cannot put you in the poor house. Compassion, I assure you, will never leave your heart broken. This  is...

The Cradle of Compassion Pt. 2

by Lindsey | Jun 11, 2025 | The Tools to Build Good Lives

Compassion is like holding a baby. You don’t always need to feel compassionate, but nothing feels as good as holding a baby when we know we don’t always need to hold the baby!

Tool # 2: The Pipe Cleaner of Creativity

by Lindsey | Jun 11, 2025 | The Tools to Build Good Lives

The Tools of Good Living can be taught. Creativity, like Pipe Cleaners, is flexible, colourful, and cheap to come by. It also liberates you.

Tool # 3: The Bird Feeder of Grace

by Lindsey | Jun 11, 2025 | Featured, The Tools to Build Good Lives

Grace. It is rather difficult to talk about Grace as a thing, a tool. Particularly as there is nothing transactional about Grace, and you can’t earn it or become undeserving of it. Grace what we exhibit when we choose to give others (or ourselves)  the benefit...

Tool #4: The License Plate of Responsibility, pt. 1

by Lindsey | Jun 11, 2025 | The Tools to Build Good Lives

What is a license plate but a tool for telling the world “Here I am. I’m covered. I’ll do my best, and if something goes south, I’m accountable”. This relates to our emotional, spiritual, and psychological worlds, too: We all carry...