On Monday evening, I heard Donald Miller speak at Messiah College. He shared some great thoughts, some rambling thoughts that almost lost me and some thoughts about being naked. That just scared some of you and sparked interest in the rest of you – so to clarify, he was talking about Adam…
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, you should pause and reflect.” – Tim Ferriss
I’ve liked this quote by Theodore Roosevelt for a long time … “Do what you can with what you have where you are.” That thought helped carry me through many seasons – Finding a spiritual identity outside the boxes of my past Begin walk/running at age 28 (never exercised before)…
I like to reserve Sunday as a day of rest, so my Sunday posts will be sayings or quotes that I’ve read that make me laugh and/or think. “We are created in the image of God, and he modeled for us a way of life that makes sense for how…
Without hope, it’s almost impossible to keep going on this roller-coaster of life. Many days, I’ve lived on the thought that, “Tomorrow will be better than today” – that’s hope. Hope in something I don’t see, but I believe in.I recently read these thoughts about hope. In Erma Bombeck’s book…
I am happy to call myself a follower of God and of Jesus. But at times, I don’t want to call myself a Christian, because there are so many negative associations with being a Christian. Below is a portion of an article that lists five of them. After I read…
Feeling ‘torn to pieces’ these days? You are probably tempted to think – if only you had lived 50 years ago, life won’t have been as busy then. Like 1955 – that had to be a less stressful time because it was back in the ‘good old days’ when life…
Too many days this is how my attempts to write go …. “Usually, writers will do anything to avoid writing. For instance, the previous sentence was written at one o’clock this afternnon. It is now a quarter to four. I have spent the past two hours and forty-five minutes sorting…
Some food for thought from quotes I’ve read recently about happiness … The great problem in the United States is not repression or neurosis, which it was in Europe when Freud wrote about everything. No, the great problem here is not repression. It’s narcissism and addiction. Those are our great…
There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly.So he sent them each on a quest, in turn,to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.The first son went in the winter,the second in…
“Dig in!” ZigZag leans forward, his hands crossed, looking intently at my omelet. It smells good. It has a lumpy appearance. I pick up my fork, and start to unfold it. “Uh uh!” ZigZag holds up one hand. “You don’t want to spoil the surprise.” “Surprise?” He looks furtively in…
“Forgiveness does not change the past but it does enlarge the future.”– Source unknown We moved in the past month, so I am not doing much writing, so enjoy the quotes.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth.We are happy when we are growing. -William Butler Yeats So many people walk around with a meaningless life.They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the…