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  Man is like a breath. Every breath counts, but no one breath lasts forever. Though our last breath may be short and shallow, labored or easy, or long and deep, it shall be our last. We are not here forever. Let us regard the days as passing that we may fine-tune each moment as…

  What is emerging from this frenzied emergency? Is it focused action built upon predetermined objectives, rooted in enduring principles? Or is it reactive and mindless flailing after perceived winds of crisis? Is it urgent? If so, what is the source of the urge? Is it essential? Then of what is it the essence? Things…

The last drizzles of winter,Barely detectedEasily deflectedWe have rejected the splinterAnd welcomed the plankTake it to the bankThough weary hearts sankLet spring now enterOur sphere of existenceHalf-hearted resistanceDogged persistenceThe stride of a sprinterSeasons always changeEmotions run the rangeAnd we rearrange our thinking and our habitsFor every new, yet patterned reality.Really?Really.It is going to be a…

  The key to not throwing in the towel and quitting on your dream may be as simple as one simple action following a decisive choice. Decide to do something and then, do something. In so doing, you will have taken a step. You will have closed the gap between inaction and action and you…

“As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.” – Psalm 103:15 For our season, whatever it may be, we flourish. Then comes the wind and we are gone. Soon, the very memory of our lives fades from the consciousness of our successors and we are thought…

Some songs to God are full of complaints, pleas, and desperate cries resolving themselves in faith. That is especially true when the psalmist is weighed down by the burden of assaults by his critics. The temptation is not to sing those songs because they are not holy enough, not pious enough, rough, raw, guttural, and…

There is a stinging indictment here that I, and thousands of preachers can do well to heed today. Jeremiah conveys a sobering issue. Prophets who declare their own dreams and interpretations infallible and speak words of false assurance that do no profit the people. Those who speak to us and say that suffering is bad…