Category: forgiveness

A weekend of tennis lessons

March 19, 2008 | 3 comments

What a weekend! My family and I attended three days of the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament happening in Indian Wells, CA. We wanted to expose our budding tennis player son to high quality talent, plus my wife and I

When unpleasantly surprised, stay calm

November 13, 2007 | 6 comments

The City of Richland has been landscaping in front of my office. They removed several trees and plan to plant some new ones in different spots on the breezeway I look out onto. After they removed the old trees, they

The power of forgiveness

July 24, 2007 | 6 comments

I was reminded today of a story that illustrates one of the most powerful ways to conquer one’s enemies. Love the hate right out of them… This is a true account. A woman sat silently in the courtroom until the

No need for guilt trips

May 31, 2007 | 3 comments

Have you ever felt guilty for making a mistake? Have you been made to believe by others that you’re the family “can’t get it right” and deserving of ridicule? Most of us do something now and then that we wish

Nothing stuck in Mind

May 13, 2007 | 12 comments

Sometimes I have an unpleasant experience which I wish was not happening at the time it was happening, but it happens anyway. Ever had one of those? I had one last week. It was lunchtime. I grabbed a newspaper with