Is it Really Love?
“Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love, therefore, is the fulfillment of the law.” (Romans 13:10) Love is a word our culture loves to throw around without definition. We use it in a way that seems to say the essence of love is “always be nice to me and never tell me anything that […]
Every New Day
Every new day is a new page, blank on one side and covered on the other with all that has come before. You cannot change what has already been written, but you CAN choose what you will write today. You CAN choose to be informed but not controlled by yesterday’s words. You CAN choose to […]
Great Leaders
GREAT LEADERS know when to step up, and when to step down. They are ready to step in when needed, and willing to step aside when the people they serve need something and someone else. They do not seize power to fuel their own ego, nor do they hold on to it to assuage their […]
American. Heroes.
On September 11, 2001, I was working at the News-Press, our local paper. Like every other American, that morning I woke to a new world, and though I didn’t know it yet, everything was about to change. I rushed to the newsroom and spent the next day and night combing the wire services, forwarding photos […]
The World I Want
I wept for the world today, but not because of today’s health emergency, though it’s certainly dire indeed. I wept, not because of tomorrow’s economic outlook, though it’s definitely a great concern. No, I wept for something else, something more profound. Looking out from the second-story window of a nearly empty co-working space, I saw […]
About that sinking feeling…
You have not been left out. You have not been left behind. You have not wasted your life. You have not failed your calling. ––– You still matter to God. You still have much to offer. You are still valuable to the world around you. The best is yet to come. ––– Now get to […]
Silver Bullets
There are no “silver bullets” or one-size-fits-all solutions. We may take giant steps from time to time, but they are still only steps in a journey that will –and must– continue until the day we die. “Success” in life is not so much about arriving as it is about embracing the process of becoming.
Three Acceptances
To accept the world as it is without losing hope; this is the great journey of adulthood and maturity. To accept people for who they are, not for who you wish them to be; this is the great task of love. To accept that though disappointment and pain are part of our lot in this life, they […]
Worship
Worship is not an event you attend once a week; it’s the lifestyle you practice every day. In reality, everyone, everywhere, at all times is worshipping someone or something, because worship is simply the act of demonstrating the value (or “worth”) of something by giving it priority. When you prioritize one person, activity or interest above others […]
Thoughts on working through a miscarriage
It was a Tuesday night around 9pm. The doctor strode in to our room at the ER and announced to my wife and me, “I’m sorry, you’ve had a miscarriage.” Heather had already known; she had felt it in her body and her heart. I was holding on to hope, not wanting to believe, but […]
