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Do You Need Balance?
Here comes the one and (I hope) only “big” word in this entire article. But it is an important word, so bear with me. Ready? Proprioception. It is pronounced with a pro, then a pre, then an uh sepshun, with the emphasis on the sep. What it means is the
Beautiful Good
While the world turns (to coin a phrase), many still notice that there are people on the planet who could use a little — or a lot of — help. Three of those are in this article. Every story will make you smile, will encourage you, and will lift your
How To Have A Good Day, Guaranteed
About twenty years ago American Idol did something I thought was terrific fun: they sent eliminated contestants off the show while showing clips of them, but the music playing was Bad Day by Daniel Powter. They just used the chorus, I think, part of which says You had a bad
Where are we going (in life and in Iran)?
Last week’s article on “worldview” (a name I have not learned to love) focused on two things: the big picture and the little picture. The big picture is “how do you see the whole world,” and the little picture is that part of the world you live in every day.
A Look At The World
Back in the days when the Amazon was only a physical jungle where a compass was needed to survive, two shoe salesmen were sent by their company to some well populated but less civilized parts of the world. The first salesman was abroad about three days before he wrote back
Where Is Your Trust?
And who trusts you? Occasionally someone will ask me where ideas come from for these weekly articles. Honestly I don’t always know. Somewhere on my computer is a list of topics, but I haven’t looked at it or even for it in a long time. I probably should. But I
Let’s Debate
What do Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Campbell, and Charlie Kirk all have in common? For one, they all had a lot of people who disagreed with their positions on various ideas. Sometimes the opposing beliefs were fiercely held. In the case of both Lincoln and Kirk, people who disagreed with them
I Was Blind, But Now I See
That title is a quote from an unnamed man in the Bible, but it has so many applications in life that even if you’ve never opened a Bible you’ve probably heard the quote. For the last few days, I’ve been using it myself — and in the somewhat literal sense.
What you have to give to others…
The title of this article is, by intent, a double entendre. That’s a fancy phrase from 17th century French for a word or phrase that is open to two meanings. In our case the word have can mean “what you possess,” and so the phrase would mean, “What you have
Stop and say hello
The ask “Tell me again the name of the town you’re from.” The request came from John Ortberg, a relatively new friend I was playing golf with. Both of us were preachers, both of us had grown up in Illinois, though in different parts, and both of us now lived
Can you tell good from evil?
This may surprise you, but there is a lot of evil in the world. OK, I’m kidding. If you’ve thought about it at all you know there is a lot of evil. We see it in all kinds of forms: bullying, terribly foul language, cheating on taxes, and calling in
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