Our days are numbered. How will we live them out? Read more
Our days are numbered. How will we live them out? Read more
Eventually, it happens. And yes, it will come your way. You can’t really plan for it, because it sneaks up in the middle of the night, or it raids your happiest moments in life, or destroys the ending to the perfect story. If you’re human, you will have some sort of trial come your way. It’s a guarantee. You may lose a job, have a spouse walk away from you, or contract a life-threatening disease. There are smaller trials –... Read more
“We want to plant big trees to line our village, and to have it full of flowers. I want our village to prosper, to bloom. That’s my dream for where we live, to be the best, to be full of beauty.” Read more
Self-reliance is a key toward restoring dignity. Generations are benefiting from this work. Read more
A tale can make the meticulous easy. That’s why Aesop was able to teach children deep truths. That’s why Jesus spoke of eternity in simple parables. Read more
Fear is an intrinsic part of the human experience. With over two thousand known phobias, from the peculiar (Novercaphobia, the fear of your stepmother) to the more common (Claustrophobia, the fear of confined spaces), it seems there’s a name for nearly every fear we can imagine. Yet, when we look at the fears of babies, we find that they start with just two: the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. Everything else, it appears, is learned. Discovering... Read more
A unique organization recycles mattresses otherwise destined for the landfill. But the man behind the operation not only breaks down mattresses, but builds up lives of felons and other hard-to-employ individuals. "We try to fill our men with hope. We want to give them a chance to reformat their families, bodies, and responsibilities" Read more
I think it’s called “commiserating” I was in the stands along with other long-suffering parents. We were all there for a T-Ball game with kids just a little young for Little League. It’s a chance for them to get out, run around, and get dirty. But for the parents, you know the drill. It’s kind of like baseball with four bases and nine players on a team. But that’s where the similarity ends. The ball is a whiffle, and it’s... Read more
Civil war is coming if we don’t act to stop it. We can change course and write our own history or stumble ahead and repeat it. Read more
This isolation has led to untold problems. We have built fences around our castles, avoiding any neighborly contact with the push of a garage door opener. We enter these castles eating quick heat dinners and hovering over computer screens without connection to our fellow man. Read more
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