Ignoring Advent!
If you are comfortable in this world, then I encourage you to ignore Advent. Christmas is the holiday for you. Waiting and hoping are just not worthwhile, so jump to…
If you are comfortable in this world, then I encourage you to ignore Advent. Christmas is the holiday for you. Waiting and hoping are just not worthwhile, so jump to…
Lloyd John Ogilvie wrote a book some years ago titled, Falling into Greatness. Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie (1930-2019) was a Presbyterian minister from Kenosha, Wisconsin who became the chaplain of the…
When you pursue and accumulate power as some form of adrenaline…..this leads to self-destruction. Real power is love, love that empowers others, love that sparks initiatives, love that no chain…
There is a beautiful and an important scene in the movie Dr. Zhivago. The Comrade General is talking with Tanya. He asks her, “How did you come to be lost?" She replies,…
According to Dr. Michael Brickley, a psychologist who focuses on issues related to aging, more and more senior citizens are living healthy and active lives into their 80’s, 90’s, and…
Thanksgiving is all about family and tradition. Even though we are now a “fast-food” nation and a “take-out” culture, Thanksgiving is the one day when we remember old recipes and…
When the Pilgrims celebrated that first Thanksgiving in 1621, they had almost nothing. And yet they celebrated as if they had everything. Most of us Americans have more to be…
Every Thanksgiving gathering includes family members and others we cannot wait “To EMBRACE,” and some we have “To BRACE FOR”. This is especially true today with the political and COVID-19 divide that…
There were some people who were on a raft off the coast of Brazil. They were perishing from thirst, for as you know, ocean water is undrinkable. What they did…
John Bowes, the chairman of the parent company of Wham-O, the maker of Frisbees, once participated in a charity effort. He sent thousands of the plastic flying discs to an…