"No life is a total waste. It can always serve as a bad example." I'll never forget when my best friend first shared this bit of wisdom with me. I was really down because someone that was supposed to be a positive influence on me was anything but. And...
I have a friend who is a biologist and she is also an atheist. She's an atheist because she's convinced there is no such thing as "free will." And she believes this because of her science. To her, every choice we think we make is actually just certain chemical...
What's the best way to improve society? Change the person or change the society? There was a day in America when the common understanding was to change the person and society would improve, but nowadays it seems that many think that fighting to change society means addressing society's faults...
My best friend in the world died of a brain tumor many years ago. Anyone who has either struggled with cancer or knew someone who did, knows the radical nature of cancer treatment. The chemotherapy is literally poison used to kill the cancer. But it's still poison. Many have...
I was a fire bug when I was younger. Fire fascinated me, that is until one day when I burned myself play with fire. It's amazing how instructional pain can be if you let it! But why is it we keep insisting on learning life's lessons the hard way? Why...
All the sins and mistakes of all the people in the world who have ever lived all combined together and multiplied by a thousand plus ten can NEVER overpower God's love and peace! Individually, our sins can never overpower Him. Collectively, our sins cannot exhaust Him. If that were remotely...
Most of us know the German legend about Faust and his deal with the devil. Faust is a bit of a con man but he's unhappy with his life so he sells his soul to the devil in exchange for unlimited earthly knowledge and pleasure. Of course, the story...
One of the most vivid memories of my childhood was a punishment I received for making a mess in the basement of our house when I was just a boy. But this is what made it so memorable. The truth is I was always a kid who took the...
A wise man once said "You only get out of life what you put into it. Don't expect more until you do more." Wow. That's something to let echo in your head a bit and see what kind of insights it produces in your own life. Of course, that's the...
"She made me do it." This was the "excuse of my daughter when I asked her why she hit her sister! Wow, that's a lot of power to give to someone else! It seems we humans have a particular gift for shifting the blame to someone else when we make...
