Tag: persistence

Stay up

December 11, 2012 | 1 comment

Fall down seven times, get up eight times.   ~ Japanese proverb   I’m not into building a case for hard times, “falling down,” or repeated failure. But any honest soul knows from experience that life is not always easy. There

Don’t give up now

December 6, 2012 | 18 comments

The below is a letter I wrote in reply to a Christian Science practitioner who was very discouraged and disheartened after praying for a patient who eventually passed on. She was wondering whether to stay in the practice or not.

National Champs

October 23, 2012 | 7 comments

My wife is a National Champion! Yep, believe it or not, she is a member of a USTA 3.5 women’s tennis team that advanced all the way from humble, hardly-anyone-has-heard-of Tri-Cities, Washington, to the USTA National Championship tournament held in Indian

The problem is not bigger

May 21, 2012 | 11 comments

Occasionally, I’ve heard people who had been praying for resolution of a particular problem in their life lament that their prayers had been very effective in eliminating all kinds of side issues, but the one leading issue they had intended

Catch the wave

November 30, 2011 | 3 comments

I was watching my two children take surf lessons with a group of beginners last week off the coast of Kailua-Kona, in Hawaii.  The waves were minimal, but enough to teach one how to stand upright on a board and