In my old law enforcement days I served on the DUI Task Force in our local community. This was when Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) was just getting started and there was a real push to get impaired drivers off the road. We had to do extensive training on...
"Smiling faces, smiling faces, sometimes, they don't tell the truth, smiling faces, smiling faces, tell lies, and I've got proof..." The Temptations did this song in 1971 and it's a favorite. But it's message is all too familiar. Sometimes, a friend turns out to be no friend at all....
Drama! I confess, I am not a fan of drama in my house. And here I am living with three women! I guess the joke's on me! OK, before I get in real trouble here, let me say that I have noticed the older I get, the more I like...
Why is it I keep having to learn wisdom the hard way? I mean, it isn't like I haven't had wise men and women and friends who have offered wise counsel. I've seen how bad choices can really wreck a life and then I've watched myself make those SAME...
If you've spent any time with me at all, you know I'm a big fan of asking the "WHY" question when it comes to our motivations for living. In fact, I'm convinced that no one sticks with a pattern of life that is effective without really understanding WHY it...
Fr. Alexander Schemann once said "The greatest charge against a Christian is that he has no joy." Frankly, the normal Christian faith is incompatible with a life without joy. It is specifically joy, regardless of the outward circumstances that should be the "normal" Christian life. Now I know what you're...
Nelson Mandela once said "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." This is so true. I've found too many people who think that because...
I never will forget the look on his face when I told this man that "Happiness is a choice." You see, he had come into my office insisting that he wasn't happy and asking what could he do about it. He wanted to hear me tell him to change...
Socrates said "The only true wisdom is to know you know nothing." Deep! But is the great philosopher right? In a sense, yes, because to know you know nothing means you must be in relationships to know anything. One of the most powerful draws for me in my own journey...
OK, it’s a great scene: Indiana Jones and his dad have reached the cave where they believe the Holy Grail has been hidden. But, to get to the treasure Indy has to pass some tests. As he approaches the first test, he remembers the words of warning “Only the...
