I’ve heard it said that the travail of nine months of pregnancy is God’s way of making the prospect of labor more manageable for a woman: by the time...
Though not for the first time, I ran across a powerful thought the other day. It struck me as being so significant that I’ve decided to turn my entire...
“We’re going home, Dad?” my almost-three year old son asked as we were wrapping up the last of our errands on a recent evening. He had grudgingly agreed to...
During a recent conversation with my two oldest children, my 11-year old daughter asked, “Do you need a degree from the university to do what mom does?” “No,” I...
God’s decision to put parents in charge of kids has, contrary to popular kid opinion, proven to be a pretty good idea. We have a big say concerning the...
Peace . . . this month’s column is brought to you by the word Peace. Peace was what this Christmas idea was all about in the first place. Ironically,...
My 12-year old son, Benjamin, recently tried out a new joke on me: “Hey dad, did you hear they removed the word ‘gullible’ from the dictionary?” (To spare the...
Someone once said that relationships and feelings are all that really matter in life; that everything else is of secondary importance. Of the many relationships a person develops throughout...
“The only change that matters is a change of heart. Every other change alters us cosmetically but not fundamentally, modifies how we appear or what we do, but not...
As do virtually all societies, American society rightly esteems self-reliance as one of its core values. Indeed, the collective strength of a given community depends in large measure on...