I’m thinking about starting a non-profit organization for all the people who perform acts of kindness and don’t want to be thanked for doing them. Maybe I’ll name it, “Grace-Givers Anonymous.” I could set up a website, www.gracegivers.org, where people like you could donate to this non-profit. Billboards promoting deliberate acts of kindness could be …
This year between 30 and 40 million Americans will sell a used car. I’m one of them; I just parted with my old car. I bought the 1996 T-Bird mainly out of desperation; Lori and I had grown weary of car-pooling in our one vehicle. She would need to go home when I had the …
With every flyer I placed on the doorknob, I felt a surge of energy: I was actually making a difference, and for an 11 year old kid, that’s a big deal. I had taken Judge Loys Criswell’s request to help him in his reelection campaign for Associate District Judge of Jackson County, Oklahoma as seriously …
Thousands of people have related their stories of near death experiences (NDEs), perhaps the most popular in recent years being told by a pastor (Don Piper, 90 Minutes in Heaven, 2004), and by a child (Colton Burpo, Heaven is for Real, 2010), neither of which, though fascinating in their own right, is likely—given the occupation …
“I went back upstairs one more time and said ‘goodbye’ to my room. I’m ready to go now.” Dave’s words were my signal: Cutting my eyes towards him as he walked to his car, I turned on the headlights in the early morning dawn, put the U-Haul in gear, and we all—Dave, Lori, Madi, and …