Month: November 2012

Life shouldn’t hurt

November 16, 2012 | 7 comments

I learned a significant rule for living without pain during a recent tennis lesson. My racket-hand wrist was hurting when I hit the ball. As my game has improved, I’ve played much better players, and the ball gets hit more

Act on those ideas!

November 15, 2012 | 4 comments

Ideas won’t keep: something must be done about them. ~Alfred North Whitehead Do you have lots of great ideas, but they remain only ideas that never take an outward form? They get stashed away in backroom mental storehouses that rarely get

The bane of selfishness

November 14, 2012 | 8 comments

Are there times when your prayers are not answered and you wonder why? Perhaps there is an element of selfishness that needs to be eliminated. Ponder the depths of this message from Mary Baker Eddy: “Selfishness does not appear in the

No mountain too big

November 13, 2012 | 5 comments

It’s not the mountain we conquer,   but ourselves.   ~Edmund Hillary (First to climb Mt. Everest) Are there any mountain-sized problems in your life? Fear not. They are not bigger than God. They are not bigger than the solutions that solve them.

Your nuisance patrol unit

November 12, 2012 | 5 comments

I was driving through Richland last week, the city where I live, and in front of me was a pickup truck with the following words on its door and tailgate: City of Richland CODE ENFORCEMENT Nuisance Patrol Unit Nuisance patrol