Grief has a way of blinding us to everything else around us. I remember a particularly dark time in my own life where a dear and wise man warned me of making important decisions during this time of grief in my life. He knew what I couldn't in that...
Rushing head long into a significant moment without proper preparation usually means you are going to miss the point! I can't tell you how many times I've looked back on a significant moment in my own life and said "Boy if I knew then what I know now!" Yep,...
Kindness is contagious, but so is indifference and judgementalism! In fact, most indifference and judgmentalism is rooted in fear, the fear that "I may not be right" or the fear that "I might be wrong" or even the fear that if I don't "defend this or that "truth" my whole...
"What you don't know won't hurt you!" Really? I've found that, sometimes, what I don't know hurts me pretty bad. But what's worse is misunderstanding what I actually do know. In fact, I have misunderstood some things I thought I knew so bad that I might as well not known...
I love the old horror movies in black and white. The building of suspense where you're screaming at the screen "Run" or "Don't go in there!" Vincent Price was my favorite, and my most favorite horror movie of his is "The Oblong Box" by Edgar Allen Poe. What was brilliant...
I never will forget the first time I was in an airplane. I was barely a teenager when I took my first flight from Central Florida to Atlanta. What struck me most was the perspective of being so far above my home town. I could see all kinds of...
"Why do you hate me?" I can't ever seem to get over the shock of someone assuming that, because I disagree with him, I must then, therefore, hate him. This is an amazing and modern phenomenon that to disagree with someone is to hate them. To point out the...
"He was doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons." Frankly, when I heard that, I didn't even realize that was even possible. But it is. You really can do all the right things for all the wrong reasons, and then you're amazed when the "right doing"...
You remember the trick, don't you? "This is the house and this is the steeple, open the door and there's the people." It was shown to me first by a Sunday School teacher wanting to illustrate just how important it was to go to church. What I loved is...
"He's a liar!" Yep, he sure is, and his actions send ripples throughout his life and the lives of so many others. We were discussing a politician we both knew. But, here's the rub; this politician held many of the same values and positions we both felt strongly about. However,...
