The Robert Jones Journal
In His Own Words
These are the posts Bob published during his lifetime through the Robert Jones Journal at ChaplainUSA.org. Unedited. Unaltered. His voice, his cadence, his heart on the page.
252 original posts — newest first
- It's All About The Joy
- Trains Pull Out Of The Station
- What Is Your Heritage? Remembering Who I Am
- Our Independence Day Celebrations
- Simple Advice for Coping with Adversity
- The Bondage of Worry Revisited
- Picking Up The Feather
- Finding Our Fathers
- Entering Into Solidarity
- Once Invisible
- Shining a Fresh Light on Old Wisdom
- No Room and No Quarter for Racism
- What Am I Supposed to Do?
- Mental Health Awareness Month: Be Wary of Loneliness
- The Culture of Life: A Garden Entrusted to You
- Heal, Help, And Comfort; Just Do The Next Right Thing
- 2020 Vision of Mother's Day
- A Need For Security: How To Use Your Get Out Of Jail Free Card
- Each of Us is Essential
- The Land In Between: Moving From What Was To What Shall Be
- America Shining Through: What We Do For The Least Of Our Brothers
- Caution To The Wind: A Premature Rush To Normal?
- A Call For Patience: The Bigger Experience of Life
- Spreading Love Goes Viral
- Easter In Isolation: The Light Hasn't Been Dimmed
- Our Hardest Times: Birth Of The Next Greatest Generation?
- Getting Bored and Feeling Lonely: Why It's Time To Share A Story
- Transformational Suffering: Saved from the Calmness
- Stronger than Death: Revealing Life's Hidden Promises
- Awfulizing the Future: Smoking Cigarettes and Watching Captain Kangaroo
- When We Cannot Fix Someone’s Pain
- Owning Your Part; A Step Toward Healing
- Irresistible Hoops; Where Have All The Players Gone?
- What Are You Fighting About?
- Headwaters; Our Connection to the Source
- Consider Yourself at Home; Welcoming and Belonging
- Having A Good Conversation
- Defined by Love
- Leaving an Epitaph; Time For Every Purpose
- Looking Through The Window; More Angels Than Angles
- Planting Happiness Where You Are
- Religion Can Still Transform; Hope for the Future
- The Incredible Gift
- Thinking, Passions and Dreams; What to do with a Talking Frog
- Life's Not Fair
- Relationships and Trust; Four Points of Restoration
- Our Ifs and Almosts
- A Blessed Gift to Others; Four Themes of Love
- A Deeper Tolerance; 2020 Vision
- The Personal Epiphany
- Five Rejuvenating Resolutions for 2020
- The True Meaning of the Holidays (And Those 5 Golden Rings)
- Christmas Days of Yore
- Making Peace
- God With Us; Pure as the Driven Snow
- Refractions of Light; It's All About The Joy
- Hope is Made of Memories
- A Journey at Night; The Road That Takes Us Home
- The Grace of Unknowing
- Awaiting The Wonderful
- Thanksgiving Past; The Gift of a Perennial Message
- Thankful for Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving Departures
- Making the Decision to Carry On
- Just Like Me
- The War Story His Father Could Barely Tell
- A Matter of Faith and Love
- Radical Availability; Testifying to Love
- Our Worldview of Scarcity; The Best Things in Life are Free
- Good Guys and Bad Guys; Heroes and Villains
- Becoming Who We Are Created to Be
- What It Means To Be Alive: Discovering A Purpose
- Forgive and Forget; How to be Fully Present
- Saying Goodbye to Self Pity; It's All About Delight
- Taking Ourselves Too Seriously; Embracing Playfulness
- Denial; The Other Sound of Silence
- The Sounds of Silence; A Path to Serenity
- Awe and Acceptance; Looking Through Different Lenses
- Splendiferous Fall; Revealing the Beauty Within
- From Earth Shattering to World Building
- Authentically Living the Gospel's Message of Peace
- A Time For Encouragement; What the World Needs Now
- Surviving Trauma; Transforming Pain and Suffering
- Becoming Authentic; Doing the Inside Job
- Freedom Against The Wind; Sailing to Joy and Happiness
- Labor Day Reminiscence; Sweet Memories of Home
- Winning and Losing; A Model of Cooperation
- Great Nations Have Fallen Over Less; America's Crisis of Negativity
- Elderhood; An (Almost) Full Embrace of Aging
- Prayer; An Ongoing Conversation
- Patience and Kindness; Gifts To Be Treasured
- Making Amends; The Joy of Reconciliation
- Mutual Respect; A First Dose of Healing
- Have Hope; The Best Is Yet To Be
- A Cry for Justice; When Mercy is Abandoned
- We Can Be Better; We Can Do Better
- The Bondage of Worry; Setting Yourself Free
- Finding the Pony; A Full Embrace of Abundance
- Good Intentions; A Paving Project
- Oneing; Our Undeniable Kinship
- Here and Now; Just One Moment in Time
- Atonement; How to be at One
- Working from Home; A Digital Revolution
- Knowledge at Our Fingertips; You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
- Getting Soft; Casualties of a Digital Age
- Hacking Our Future; Time to Circle Your Web Wagons
- Reclaiming Privacy in the Digital Age
- Digital Addiction; The World's Next Great Health Crisis
- Digital Life; Challenges of A New Frontier
- Grief Transformation; Cocoons and Butterflies
- Complicated Grief; Frozen in Loss
- Grief Re-purposed; Reveling in Life at the Moment of Death
- Comprehending Grief; Five Lessons for 'Passing Through'
- The New Normal; Strength and Wholeness from Vulnerability
- Grief and Loss; Helping Others Cope
- Grief and Celebration; Twins or Pairs of Opposites?
- Grief and Vulnerability; So Hard to Go There
- Grief and Loss Unbundled; Revisiting the Five Stages
- Life to the Fullest; Five Ways to Accept the Presence of Fear
- Through the Glass Darkly; Our Fear of Strangers
- Descending Into Fear; Finding Spiritual Wholeness
- Never Numbing Out; Overcome and Carry On
- Fear Trumped by Love
- Paralyzed by Fear; Numbed Out and Powerless
- The Fear That Divides Us
- Beyond Fear & Anger; Living in Gratitude
- Anger in America; Children Are Listening
- Freedom From Fear
- Fear in America; Taming the Mind's Horrible Imaginings
- America the Angry: A Way Forward with Rabbi Moshe Scheiner
- Lincoln Did Not Hide His Grief
- Saying Things are Fine When They are Not
- Did you choose "plastics"? Living authentically
- Finding God; Where to Start Looking
- God's Dream Come True
- The Roadmap to Compassionate Action
- How to Crack the Negativity Code
- Awakening to Snowfall; Remember Who You Are
- Freedom from Fear and Regret
- Finding Joy in Tempestuous Times
- Restoring a Sense of Wonder in the Internet Age
- Loving the Back Roads
- Dreams and Reality; the Dance of Oneing
- Epiphany; Home By Another Way
- Dance of the Ninth Day
- The New Year; A Path to Reconciliation
- The Second Day of Christmas; Saint Stephen's Day
- The Christmas Fire
- Gifts of The Wonderful
- Rejoice, Rejoice; The Season of Light is Beckoning
- Embracing Faith; The Mystical, Magical Flight of Christmas
- Have Some Faith; A Message of the Christmas Season
- The Good Word; our power to surprise and delight
- The Wonder of Hope
- Advent and the Gift of Waiting
- All Stirred Up
- Thanksgiving Day and Lost Sheep
- With Gold Dust at My Feet
- The Activism of Love
- The War to End All Wars
- Finding the Middle Way
- Honor Your Legacy
- An Inconvenient Truth
- A Time to Kneel
- A Recipe for Living
- Make the World Come Alive
- Sage Wisdom
- Oh, Lord it's Hard to Be Humble
- The Courage to Speak Up
- Seasonal Wonders
- This Is It
- A Karmic Misunderstanding
- All You Need is Love
- How Blest are the Peacemakers
- The Game-Day Playbook
- Finding Your Balance
- Ubuntu; I Am Because We Are
- Angels Among Us
- Summers' Last Hope
- The Fruits of Our Labor
- A Change Will Do You Good
- Maybe I'm Amazed
- A Walk in the Desert
- Pack Your Bags
- Let's Go Fishing
- Making America Kind Again
- Spiritual Awakening; From Pain to Wisdom
- Six Words Can Open a Conversation
- More on Judging and Being Judged
- Inclusion; Let It Begin With Me
- Sail on Sailor
- An Irresistible Banquet
- Going Down to the Crossroads
- Bring Us Some Good News
- Being Present to the Present
- The Healing Heart of Compassion
- Overcoming Adversity
- We Hold These Truths To Be Self Evident
- From Sea to Shining Sea
- Our Common Humanity
- Full Steam Ahead
- The Journey of Becoming
- Removing Barriers To Care for Youth
- Father's Day and Our Expectations
- Seeking Wisdom On The Journey
- Sometimes the Runner Stumbles
- The Profound Effect of Childhood Trauma; A Gentle Revolution of Trauma Informed Care
- The Big Questions; For Those Who Dare to Dream
- Kids in Trouble; Injustice Posing as Justice in America
- Transforming Cheerfulness
- Forgiving Our Families
- Tell Your Stories on Memorial Day
- Finding My Neighbor
- How Trauma Is Killing Us: Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
- God Shows Up
- Loneliness; A Clear and Present Danger of Our Times
- A Choice For Happiness
- A Mother's Love
- Our Obligation to Privacy; Offering the Seal of Confidentiality
- A Little Help From My Friends
- Live In This Sacred Moment
- Seeking Humility
- The Graying of Baby Boomers; Some Challenges of Ageing in the 21st Century
- Tribes; Losing and Rediscovering Kinship in a Time of Widening Polarization
- The Reverence of Kindness
- The Self-Doubt Committee
- Survivor Guilt: What Happens When We Are Left Behind
- The Miracle of Self-Sacrifice
- The Sustaining Gift of Encouragement
- A Mission From God
- Life Is A Banquet
- Expressing Thanks and Gratitude
- Prejudice and Transformation; The Experiential Roots of Bias and Spiritual Awakenings
- The Listening Mission: Learning to Hear Each Other in Times of Noisy Saber Rattling
- The Addiction Epidemic: Re-ordering Strategies for Substance Abuse Disorders
- The Promise and Acceptance of Faith
- Justice, Mercy and Compassion
- Mindfulness For Everyday Peace; How meditation, prayer and contemplation are shaping our world
- The Beloved Community
- Guided by Another Easter
- The Good of Good Friday
- Servant Leadership: Developing Powerful Co-reliant Communities
- The Wisdom of Tigger
- The Coming of Spring
- Enjoy The Ride
- Suicide Prevention (1-800-273-8255): A Way to Prevent, Understand and React to Suicide Death
- When the Person Who Helps Everyone Burns Out
- Try A Little Nudge; How to change habits and manage life using simple positive influence
- How Blessed Are The Peacemakers
- Hard Times
- Violence and Restoration
- Kids for Sale
These posts open on ChaplainUSA.org — the original home of the Robert Jones Journal, where Bob published throughout his life. Each link goes directly to his original post, exactly as he wrote it.