I know a drowning man who not only won’t reach for a lifesaver but isn’t content until he drowns someone else along with him.
The weary world rejoices.
In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. News headlines often paint a bleak picture, and personal challenges can sometimes seem insurmountable. Yet, in the midst of these trials, the message of “O Holy Night” resonates more deeply.
True Friendship: Love Beyond
Being a friend doesn’t always mean filling the void with words. Sometimes, it means understanding the importance of silence, recognizing when it’s time to speak, and when it’s time to simply listen.
Encourage One Another
Encouragement is like a heavenly boomerang. You toss it out there, and it comes swinging back, often right when you need it the most. But what about those times when you’re standing there, arm outstretched, and nothing comes back?
Born again on the 4th of July.
For those of us in the States, the time is here again for our midsummer’s patriotic respite.
Gratitude and thankfulness – 6 thoughts.
Gratitude and thankfulness are easy to overlook.
It’s a perverse part of our nature to gravitate toward the negative, to bemoan the fact that things aren’t going as we wish they would. Whining, complaining? That comes easy. But to count our blessings, to be thankful and grateful – that can be challenging.
Thankfulness: A Bible study.
Thankfulness is what Thanksgiving is all about, right? And yet, when thinking about thankfulness, I’m seeing that we have to live with a certain amount of tension, of what are apparently conflicting thoughts. Thankfulness is an attitude we should grasp and hold onto. Countering that, though, is the pervasive presence of evil. How do we […]
Compassionate and upright – 4 truths.
I ran across this quote from E.B. White (you read Charlotte’s Web, right?) and it is haunting me, because it has to do with being compassionate and upright. I want to tease this one out. “As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread […]
Thanksgiving, the real deal.
I’d just bet that as you approach Thanksgiving, you’re busy. The holidays can wear you out.
When I’m 64.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote a song about me many years ago. Here’s what I’ve learned since I have fulfilled their lyrics. It’s not “When I’m 64” but “Now That I’m 64.”