A little effort is like eating a potato chip. Once you start, the next one just seems natural and then the next and the next and the next. The difference is that the potato chip saps you and leads to… Continue reading

Is it possible for an optimist to read … "Meaningless, meaningless, all is meaningless …" … or in a different translation … "Vanity of vanities; all is vanity and a striving after wind …" … and remain optimistic? The possibility… Continue reading

  I imagine that you know this, but in case you have forgotten, you are a very important part of something that is far bigger than yourself. You are integral to something that without you is not complete and without… Continue reading

One of the first lighthouses ever built, certainly one of the most famous, was the Lighthouse of Alexandria in 280 BC. Situated on the Egyptian island of Pharos, it was at one time thought to be the tallest structure on… Continue reading

It was 1961. Laws were different then. Some were inherently wicked because their sole intent was to keep people down. That is happening all over the world today. Jim Crow had a franchise on the South. Businesses could decide, based… Continue reading

Where on the ladder of life are you? You can be a happy bloke in the ashes and smoke. It's all in the handshake. It's all in the attitude. Bert loved his work, his life, and his friends? In these,… Continue reading

  "Help me …"The prayerful cry of the broken heart.The peaceful rest of the weary soul.The quiet resignation of the stubborn will.The blessed resolve of the discouraged traveler.The hope of all who breath its prayer.Help me to do Thy will.Oh… Continue reading

  Here is your God, a God who gathers masses of outcasts, who gets personally involved with individuals, and manages the universe at the same time. The same attention God gives to atomic structures and cosmic operations is directed toward… Continue reading

  "God grabbed me. God’s Spirit took me up and set me down in the middle of an open plain strewn with bones. He led me around and among them—a lot of bones! There were bones all over the plain—dry… Continue reading

I often think in themes for a morning or a day or for even a week. Themes develop and fade as quickly as they emerged … fade into those mind files where they may or may not be efficiently labeled… Continue reading