Frankly I was suspicious of his motives. He seemed friendly, but have you ever had that feeling that someone was being nice to you just to take advantage of you? Well, that's exactly how I felt: like he was just waiting to catch me in saying something so he...
Did you know it was #Giving Tuesday today? Yep, it is. This is an effort by hundreds of nonprofits and other organizations to remind us all that this season isn't only about getting, but primarily about GIVING. On this #Giving Tuesday, please consider how you will invest in ministries and organizations...
Do you know what a dichotomy is? Exactly, it is when we set in stone what appears to be two opposites. You know, like good and bad, healthy and unhealthy, up and down, you get the idea. But there are some dichotomies that are false. We separate what isn't suppose...
They say that "familiarity breeds contempt" but I'm not so sure. True, we do get to know people at their best AND their worst when we spend a lot of time with them. Everytime someone compliments me on this or that act, I'm always reminded that most of the...
And they're off! The sales, the markdowns, the deals, all conspiring to get us to spend, spend, spend. The competition is hot. The deals are unrepeatable. Knock that person ahead of you down. Reach across that lady's grasp. Get here first! Fight, fight, fight! No thanks. Black Friday sales and...
I hated what was coming and, what made it worse was, it was unavoidable. It was a confrontation with a supervisor that had been building for some time, and it wasn't going to be pretty. As he and I sat in the office of the consultant that the company...
George Bernard Shaw once famously said "Youth is wasted on the young." What he meant by that is when we have great strength and potential, we are still too immature to take full advantage of our possibilities, and when we gain the wisdom of the years, we tend to...
One of the most fundamental marks of maturity is the clear and unmistakable realization that actions have consequences. Ideas have consequences because they become actions. And avoiding consequences is always a sign of immaturity. No wonder our modern world is struggling, as it has always struggled, with the consequences of...
Through all of human history, humanity has conceived of the "perfect" society and each time we humans have endeavored to build it, it turned out to either fail or become a nightmare. In 1787, the Founding Fathers of the United States met in Independence Hall in Philadelphia to hammer...
Our modern world seems to run on violence. And it seems that everyday the news is of more violence there and more violence here. From college campuses arguing over speech and "safe zones" and "trigger warnings" to the very real violence of terrorism all meant to disrupt and destroy....
