"It's a marathon, not a sprint." Good advice to hear when you're struggling with sticking to a discipline or trying to push through a difficult task. It's even good advice for relationships. Usually, we humans give up too soon! And when we do, we usually regret it later. Or, sometimes, we stay too long, and…
The news struck me as wonderful, but my friend looked at me with surprise when I reacted with a smile and "congratulations" at him, telling me that the company he worked for was letting him go. He seemed to be genuinely amazed that I was actually happy for him.
You see, the company he worked for…
"Home is where the heart is." "There's no place like home." "I'll be home for Christmas." OK, this could go on all day.
It seems we humans have an attachment to "home." Even the word itself conjures up images, feelings, and nostalgia. Sometimes this longing for "home" sends us down the wrong paths. But the desire,…
Why are some people "rule-keepers?" What is it about most of us that if we know the "rules" we seem to be fine with that? Of course, not everyone is a rulekeeper. If that were true, I wouldn't have had a job when I was a police officer.
Being a rulekeeper isn't a bad thing. But…
Sometimes you have to wonder why we so easily miss it. You know, the obvious stuff that, once we see it, we wonder how we missed it in the first place! My girls like those puzzles where you are supposed to find the hidden pictures in a larger picture, but invariably I hear this little…
A quote from Virgil's Aeneid says "The descent to hell is easy." And no one ever expects their good intentions to turn out bad. That's the "law of unintended consequences." It seems we humans are better at coming up with witty quotes than we are at avoiding the mistakes of our "good intentions" gone bad.
But…
It's never been "popular" to confront our very prideful and "autonomous" societies with the exclusive teaching that the only way to God the Father is through Jesus Christ. In fact, most societies and cultures have reacted rather badly to this Christian faith message. Our human history shows a swing in the pendulum of society between…
Why is it that we humans struggle with understanding certain things about life, technology, relationships, politics, and the list goes on and on? Well, it's got everything to do with different experiences, different upbringing, different priorities, and so on.
But what if there was a basic understanding that was fundamentally common to all humans, something…
It was a bit of a surprise to me. In fact, it was such an unexpected revelation about myself that I am still processing this information to this day. I was embarrassed. You see, I have never had a hard time being in front of a lot of people. It was just never much of…
"I don't believe in God." "OK," I told him. "Tell me about this god you don't believe in." This young man began describing Zeus. You know, a god who is vindictive and angry; who punishes the mortals with lightning bolts of pain and sorrow. This god tries to control humans through threats and rewards. As…