Ahh, the days of summer are here. They remind me of something that happened years ago, when Lori and I took our grandson, Eli, then 8 years old, for an overnight outing to Louisville. We endured the Sunday afternoon heat at a Louisville Bats baseball game, then cooled off at the hotel pool, and were …
My granddaughter, Stella, called us. Actually, her parents called us with her on the phone; she’s only four and a half. An older child had taunted her at pre-school. “You’re invisible,” the girl had sneered at my granddaughter. The words stung Stella. I thought, “And so it begins; kids being mean to kids.” I almost …
Sometimes the stories from yesteryear reveal more truth than a thousand platitudes we preach. And most often it happens in the routine, mundane circumstances of life. Maybe that’s why Scripture admonishes us to use those very moments to pass along God’s truth: “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You …
Maya Angelou was onto something profound when she said, “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” She might have been echoing Reinhold Niebuhr’s famous prayer — the one Alcoholics Anonymous adopted — which asks for serenity to accept what can’t be changed and courage to change what …
Do you know what it’s like to be passed over? It stings. You had the perfect qualifications and didn’t get the job. “The one they chose was a friend of a friend of the personnel director,” someone whispered to you later. Or you were every bit as good as the player the coach put in …