You Are Not Alone
While I attended graduate school, I worked the nightshift for a security firm, mostly as the gateman for a yacht club, but frequently the security firm had me fill in at a factory that made die cast metal parts for […]
While I attended graduate school, I worked the nightshift for a security firm, mostly as the gateman for a yacht club, but frequently the security firm had me fill in at a factory that made die cast metal parts for […]
More often than I can count, people have brought me a Starbucks coffee. It is a very kind and generous action, and it shows me that they care about me. There’s just one minor problem. I don’t like coffee. I […]
Triumph, this time of year, seems to come in many shades of success in the Western world. Many of us feel most ready for Christmas when we have met every shipping deadline, reciprocated every Christmas card, or averted every scheduling […]
A customs officer observes a truck pulling up at the border. Suspicious, he orders the driver out and searches the vehicle. He pulls off the panels, bumpers, and wheel cases but finds not a single scrap of contraband, whereupon, still […]
A few Christmases ago, my daughter and son-in-law decided to take a date night, which meant we had the distinct pleasure of having the grandchildren for an overnight stay. Being the doting grandparents we are, we decided to take them […]
Sir Edmund Hillary was the first climber, along with his partner, Tenzing Norgay, to reach the top of Mount Everest. It happened on his third try. On Hillary’s second attempt, he not only failed to reach the summit, but his […]
When Jesus performed miracles, what was He truly trying to reveal to us. Take, for example, two people who bumped into Jesus. Jairus (on behalf of his daughter) and a very sickly woman both “bumped” into Jesus interweaving their miracle […]
The United States of America turns 244 years old on July 4, 2020. That’s a long time for a nation to remain free. But, when you look at our history in the context of world history America is just a […]
According to spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle, Jesus taught that the key to planetary transformation is for people to awaken to their identity as “Being.” In his book A New Earth, Tolle writes, “Jesus speaks of the innermost I am, the […]