Coach Mahr - Godspeed and Guideposts for Your Journey
Coach Mahr here serving as God’s Huckleberry to provide some inspiration and guideposts along our journey from where we are to where we need to be. This podcast will share his 4 decades of life experiences as a business leader, multi-faceted sports coach, community volunteer, and father with his faith to share insights gained, lessons learned to demonstrate where God’s prominence is interwoven through everyday life.
This podcast will use winsome anecdotes and imagery to create “stickiness,” while meeting people where they are in life, inspire them to reflect on their situation and discern where they need to be. Coach recognizes he is in his "Final 1/3," so his emphasis is on building up others and fostering ‘eulogy virtues’ as opposed to ‘resume virtues;’ a focus on being and not just doing; and understanding it is a privilege to serve our neighbors.
Coach Mahr - Godspeed and Guideposts for Your Journey
Presence
Presence is an essence, a state of being. Presence is seeing all aspects for what they are. To grasp what presence is, we must be fully present, fully conscious, with an acute awareness of our surroundings. Presence generates dignity. Peace is presence. Justice is presence. Presence is understanding and appreciating where we are on our journey at that moment. Not distracted by reflections on the past or worries about the future. We need far more than physical presence to cope in today’s world. We must be “rooted within ourselves” & “rooted within our faith.” Presence becomes meaningful when we move beyond the trivial and rise above the chaos. Through the act of creation, God manifested His Divine Presence into the physical and material world. God created all things. Ordinary matter is the hiding place for Spirit and thus the very Body of God. The burning bush, the communion wafer. Since the very beginning of time, God’s Spirit has been revealing its glory and goodness through the physical creation. There are sections of space and moments of time more “sacred” to us than others. The very thing that defines something as sacred is that it is precisely where and when God attempts to make Himself known to us.