Category: life

Spiritual resiliency

January 26, 2006 | No comments yet

I was walking through the snow-laden forest in the Blue Mountains this weekend. Many trees were bent over with heavy mounds of snow heaped on their branches. I felt sorry for the burdened evergreens, until I remembered the freedom that

Helping others has its reward

January 24, 2006 | No comments yet

John Macartney was skiing down Crystal Mountain in Washington State when he saw two legs sticking out of the snow near a tree off to the side of the ski run. He knew that when a skier falls into a

No sleepy retirement

January 22, 2006 | 1 comment

A woman told me that she had grown sleepy during the day ever since she retired from a long career in her field. I told her she could physically retire from her old profession, but she shouldn’t mentally retire from

God is All

January 2, 2006 | No comments yet

Shortly after graduating from college, it occurred to me one day that if I wanted to pray for people and heal them spiritually on a full-time basis, I would have to be thinking about God all of the time. I