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Posted November 2011
It’s easy to forget how to play. We can take ourselves and “the world” too seriously, and find ourselves whining and complaining about almost everything. We can go along as serious adults so long that we forget what it means to have fun. One of the things I’ve enjoyed about being in Louisiana is the [...]
Continue ReadingPosted October 2011
Christopher McCandless, a young American, abandons the life of comfort to pursue the freedom of life on the road. He burned his credit cards and set out for the Alaskan wilderness; the challenge of surviving without modern-day conveniences before him. About two years later, his body was found in an old abandoned bus in Alaska [...]
Continue ReadingPosted October 2011
At the core of every person’s religion is his or her own evaluation of their faith. Even if a person chooses not to believe the existence of God, their unbelief still encompasses a body of faith that is sustained by belief without seeing. As human beings, our lives are governed by the unseen that is [...]
Continue ReadingPosted September 2011
Part I Life is indeed a school and the minute you were born, your class was in session. I thought about this the other day while visiting a friend. She was having a pretty rough time, one burden or crises after another, it seemed. “I suppose all of us are entitled to our own problems,” [...]
Continue ReadingPosted September 2011
Over the past three hundred years, we as Americans have made tremendous strides to mend and blend cultures of diverse ethnicity. Regardless of how we arrived in this country, either on a voluntary boat ride, or on a forced one, we found ourselves on the shores of America. From its earliest history, and even more [...]
Continue ReadingPosted August 2011
Retirement. I’ve looked forward to it for a long time. Stop the world, I want to get off. I didn’t know what the final party would be like. Will there be marching bands, music blaring, horns blowing, dogs barking, women fainting and the flag flying at half staff? No. None of the above crossed my [...]
Continue ReadingPosted July 2011
I was in the grocery store the other day, tending to my own shopping spree, when my eyes fell on a bin of watermelons. I leaned over to thump one, then another and another, when the voice next to me said, “Sir, I’ve watched you thump those melons. Would you tell me what you’re listening [...]
Continue ReadingPosted June 2011
Blessed are fathers and other imperfect people who are doing the best they can do to fulfill their role. Of course, the male species isn’t always clear about what is expected. We don’t always know whether to be macho or mild, passive or aggressive, dominate or servile. John Eldredge, in his book Wild at Heart, [...]
Continue ReadingPosted May 2011
The other day, I heard a preacher say that all of us are sinners and have fallen short of the glory of God. He echoed the words of Paul’s letter to the Romans (3:32). If that’s true—and it probably is—then we might as well do it right. In other words, we have a right to [...]
Continue ReadingPosted April 2011
Life is filled with dangers and demons. Perhaps this has always been true. WE don’t have to go very far to find people struggling with love and hate, trust and doubt, good and evil, anger and goodwill. Our struggles are always with us and “in” us. I was with a group of people recently and [...]
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