Struggles yield benefit

April 8, 2009 | 8 comments

In response to my “Children overmedicated” blog posted last Monday, I received this comment from a teacher, which I thought was very insightful. I’ve been thinking about the “Overmedication of children” blog since I have one building where at one

NW Summit

April 7, 2009 | No comments yet

I spent last weekend at the Timberline Lodge, located on a slope of Mt. Hood in Oregon, as a lecturer for a group of over 220 youth gathered from around the Northwest and other parts of North America. The participants

Children overmedicated

April 7, 2009 | 5 comments

A thought-provoking article I just read in “The Washington Post National Weekly Edition,” states that the debate over the effectiveness of long-term drug treatment of children with hyperactivity or attention-deficit disorder has been reignited. For years, millions of parents have

Eyes are for seeing

April 4, 2009 | 1 comment

A reader forwarded a comical email to me for fun. It’s rather silly, but the message has a way of sticking in thought if improved eyesight was a recent prayer. Here it is: THE EYES If you rearrange the letters,

Just for fun…

April 3, 2009 | 2 comments

A knee-slapper sent in by a reader… Subject: Holy E Mail One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the rascally behavior that was going on. So he called one of His angels and sent the