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"Give me the courage to live! Really live" Howard Thurman I had two surprising things happen to me yesterday. First, someone shook my...

“In commencement addresses people admonish us: take risks. Be willing to fail… We do want people to take risks, to strive for difficult...

When our children were very small I reached out to a neighbor for help with something. I still remember her response, “I would be happy...

How do you take the reality of Easter and make it real in your own life? Matthew tells us what the women did when they discovered that...

The moist and cool soil felt alive as I ran my fingers through it. I dug up a mum that had provided an interesting dome under the snow...

After Jesus died on the cross and had been buried for three days, stories began to circulate that his tomb was empty. Some reported that...

“The mind that comes to rest is tended in ways that it cannot intend” Wendell Berry I learned of a part-time job through a post on a...

“The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.” Dallas...

“A good half of the art of living is resilience.” Alain de Botton I’ve been thinking about olive trees recently. One morning while...

"Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. " Theodore Roethke It’s been a winter wonderland around where I live this past month. I...

“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold. ” Aristotle I have been thinking about the cold....

" Comparison is the thief of joy. " Theodore Roosevelt I recently learned of Benjamin Zander, the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic...

"I give thanks for arriving safely in a new dawn. For the gift of eyes to see the world, the gift of mind to feel at home in my life." *...

“Habits gradually change the face of one’s life as time changes one’s physical face; and one does not know it.” Virginia Woolf Change is...

“Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.” Proverbs 4:23 NCV Have you heard the story about the two marketing scouts sent to an impoverished region of world? This was before we had the internet. They were sent to see if there were any opportunities to expand business. One scout sent back a telegraph saying, SITUATION HOPELESS STOP NO ONE WEARS SHOES The other wrote back, GLORIOUS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY STOP THEY HAVE NO SHOES Each scout sees the same