Category: life

What is a normal day?

March 8, 2006 | No comments yet

What kind of day do you expect to have each morning? Do you expect 24 hours filled with joy, health, peace and progress? Or do you expect to find misery, suffering, pain, and reasons to despair? It’s a good question

Dealing with mean people

February 17, 2006 | No comments yet

I was asked, “When we die, do we have to deal with mean people who passed on before us?” I replied, “God didn’t create mean people. The troubles mean people give us are not so much from the person we

The most important things

February 14, 2006 | No comments yet

I talked to an audience of adults about valuing the most important things in life. I asked the question, “When you turn 95 and look back over previous decades, what accomplishments will be most important to you? The money you

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