How to Get Rid of Self Doubt
Andy’s wife, feeling a sense of doubting herself, goes out and buys a new line of expensive cosmetics guaranteed to make her look years younger. After a lengthy sitting before the mirror applying the “miracle” products, she asks her husband, “Darling, honestly, if you...
How to Not Become Anxious
A couple vacationing in Colorado rented a tandem bicycle and decided to attack Pikes Peak. As they began the ascent, they both soaked in the Rocky Mountain sunshine and the crisp air. The difficulty of the climb hit earlier than they expected, and the thin air stole...
Get the Junk Out of Your Trunk
When I lived in an apartment complex we had to take our garbage to a certain location on the property. I would put my garbage in my trunk and drop it off on my way to work. One time I loaded the garbage but forgot to take it to the dumpster. It stayed in my trunk for...
New Multi-faith Reflection Book Prompts Us Towards Peace
Now more than ever, people are painfully divided politically, religiously, and culturally. And yet, there is a commonality in our faith traditions that can help us turn away from polarization and create a greater sense of community in which our differences are...
Finding Friendship in Imalone Wisconsin
High atop a office building in Manhattan is a sign which points the way to Imalone Wisconsin…934 miles essentially northeast from Manhattan. The story goes it was a lighthearted moment of the billboard advertising company that had a break between businesses that...
It’s Not Easy Being a Dad,the Need for Blessing.
I remember reading about a guy who stopped in the grocery store on the way home from work to pick up a couple of items for his wife. He wandered around aimlessly for a while searching out the needed groceries. As is often the case in the grocery store, he kept passing...
Fore-Giveness
I love golf, but I must admit I’m not very good. I never know where my ball is going when I hit my drive off the tee. When it goes into the other fairway, I yell, “Fore.” "Fore" is another word for "ahead" (think of a ship's fore and aft). Yelling "fore" is simply a...
Don’t Take Things Personally to Get More Out of Life
Several years ago, a friend boarded and kept an umbrella cockatoo in his home. The umbrella cockatoo always had pink lipstick marks on the white feathers of his forehead from his doting human's kisses.... There was no question in the my friend’s mind that this bird...
Things Aren’t Always What They Seem
Have you ever looked at a situation and after a while see the same problem with a new understanding? Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's...
Impossible to Make a Change in Your Life
Do you think it is impossible to change something in your life that seems stuck? Have you given up trying to change things in your life?