Originally published July 23, 2018 Does your life have some moments of regret? Have you been to places you should have avoided? Have you lost some friends? Did you ever have a failed romance? Ever been out of work? Ever been sick longer than you felt you should have been? Have you ever made a […]
Originally published February 9, 2018 To be perfectly honest, I chose to explore this quotation because I find it interesting. Life has a way of creating tensions. We desire to have wealth—but don’t want to spend so much time working. We want to be in shape—but don’t want to devote the time to getting there. […]
Originally published May 7, 2018 Edwin Markham Edwin Markham was a popular American poet and literary figure during the first half of the twentieth century. At a New Year’s Eve party in 1898, at the age of 46, Markham read a poem he had recently written to an editor of William Randolph Hearst’s San Francisco Examiner. […]
Originally published July 16, 2018 Our lives are comprised of many elements. The time and place we were born. The family we grew up in. The places we’ve lived. The schools we attended. The field we chose for a career. The jobs we’ve had. Our partner or partners—married or single. Our children, if we’ve had […]
Originally published November 24, 2017 Reba McEntire is more than qualified to utter such a statement, as her life has modeled it. Born in McAlester, Oklahoma in 1955, she grew up on a cattle ranch. Her mother was a school teacher and her father a rancher and world champion steer roper, who was inducted into […]
—Originally published August 22, 2016— Let me begin today’s post by suggesting that if you didn’t read the previous post from Friday, August 19, 2016, that you read it now. It will make today’s post clearer and more easily understood. You can find it here: Previous article on Proverbs 26:4 Proverbs 26:4 says, “Do not […]
Originally published June 6, 2016 I remember first reading this line in the classic C.S. Lewis book, The Four Loves. It stuck with me. It’s one of those quotations that when you first read it, you nod your head and say…”Yeah, that’s so true.” Shared experience One of the moments for this birth of friendship […]
