Archive for January 2020

Our language abounds with words that tend to ignite the imagination. Sometimes it is a phrase like: The whole night sky was filled with stars. Sometimes it is just one word like: Touchdown! There is another word that we see so frequently in print and hear so often that it has lost much of the…

Margin is about space. It is about the space between two points. In Economics it is a broadly used term that has a number of applications one of which is to measure the amount of risk. In life, it is about comfort, the margin of comfort we have about some decisions we may face. It…

Is your heart talking to you? What is it saying? Are you listening? Do you like what you are hearing? We are told that after God created man’s body, He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7) The breath God breathed into this man creature, was…

Our daughter must have been around 6 years old and was playing with one of her friends when I overheard her say to her friend, No! You’re not the boss o’me! At the time I chuckled and went on my way. Later in the day, it occurred to me that out of the mouth of…

In the 1992 Presidential race between Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, one of Clinton’s campaign advisers, James Carville, put a large poster on the wall of the campaign’s headquarters that said: It’s the economy, stupid! On virtually every page of the Holy Scriptures, God has stamped the words: It’s obedience, my child! Clinton won!…

What is the it we don’t get? Well, there are several. And the we? The we are the millions of our siblings who, for a multitude of reasons, have never come to understand. …the utter impossibility of us ever being what God desires us to be without His help; …that we will never find the…

In the National Football League, when a team is able to move the ball inside their opponent’s 20-yard line, that is called the RED ZONE. What happens in that ZONE, usually determines who wins or loses the game. The RED ZONE OF LIFE is what happens between our ears. And just like on the football…

Who am I?; What am I?; Why am I?; Where am I?; and How am I? Though not exhaustive, anyone who in trying to “figure out this living thing” (to quote one of our outstanding and brilliant grandsons), has the answers to these five questions, will certainly have a head start on anyone who does…