The Sea

Do you remember the first painting you ever saw of a big body of water? And do you remember your first glimpse of the sea? Each one of these memories shaped an impression of something bigger and more powerful than ourselves – the one who created the sea.For...

Choices and Decision Making

Strange how often we duck a decision.We wiggle and squirm hoping the issue, the event, or the person will go away. Kind of like Pavlov’s experiment, the issues evaporate often enough that we are willing to continue with this dysfunctional behavior. This escape occurs...

The Critical 50s

Whether you are seeing through the front windshield of your life, you are in the middle of it, or you are glancing through the rear view mirror to see where it went, your decade of being 50 Is critical.You are too old to be young, and you are too young to be old. You...
The Critical Savings Question?

The Critical Savings Question?

I know I should save but I’m not. Why?There are multiple studies showing that 45% of millennials have no savings. They don’t have savings for a time between paychecks. They don’t have savings in case of illness. And they don’t have savings for...

Intersecting Doing and Being

Judy often says that she is on the right side of doing and the left side of being.Judy, of course, is my wife of 55 plus years. We’ve developed some short cuts to communication over those years. When I’m reading, studying, reflecting and praying she says I’m working...

I’m just about at the end of nothing

I fly a lot.Most of the time it is the fastest way to get from point A to point B so you can do what you have to do. Sometimes God does little (or big) miracles on planes.They usually take the form of the person sitting next to you. You know, the unusual...