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
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
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
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
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