Simple beauty

March 16, 2009 | 5 comments

In this age of fashion-designer clothes, tattoos, and bling, it’s heartening to view reminders that less is often more. A reader sent the below comment and picture to me, which begins with a bit of history, but ends with a

Children say the funniest things

March 15, 2009 | 1 comment

After reading my blog two weeks ago, “Through the eyes of a child,” a reader sent me this comment… I loved the one today about childrens’ interpretation of the Bible. My all-time favorite from Sunday school was the little boy

Understanding the opposite sex

March 15, 2009 | 5 comments

Have you seen the Broadway production, “Defending the Caveman?” Kathy and I went to see the show last night here in town, and I haven’t laughed so hard in one sitting in a long time. I was concerned that the

Harbor no fear of failure

March 12, 2009 | 10 comments

As many of my long term readers know, I took up tennis about 5 years ago, and have learned many spiritual lessons along the way, some of which I’ve shared on this blog. I’m not a natural athlete, so how

Heading off another type of collapse

March 5, 2009 | 9 comments

There are a number of people who saw the economic collapse coming long before it actually happened. In preparation, they saved their money, stayed out of debt and maintained a very conservative financial position. As the stock market has sunk