Category: purpose

Live with meaning

March 22, 2010 | 2 comments

Every morning my family reads a section from the Christian Science Bible lesson out loud before our son heads off to school. One morning last week I was reading the Science and Health part of the section, and when I

Know your worth

March 12, 2010 | 13 comments

I chuckled when I read this story for it reasonated with me as true in so many ways. Some guy bought a new fridge for his house. To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his front

Do something about the problem

February 23, 2010 | 3 comments

Obstacles? Deal with Them Now By Brian Cavanaugh An old farmer had plowed around a large rock in one of his fields for years. He had broken several plowshares and a cultivator on it and had grown rather morbid about

Building for others

December 17, 2009 | 2 comments

THE BRIDGE BUILDER An old man, going a lone highway, Came at the evening cold and gray, To a chasm, vast and deep and wide, Through which was flowing a sullen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim-

What in the world is going on?

March 3, 2009 | 4 comments

As I walked down our long driveway to get the newspaper this morning, I thought, “I wonder what is happening in the world today?” With steep stock market declines, bank failures, shrinking GDPs around the world, war in the Far