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… Continue reading

  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… Continue reading

“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… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

We are here today, standing on a rolling ball, trying to maintain our balance yet balanced by an unseen hand.We are suspended between the ground beneath and the sky above and somehow unimpressed.We are ever bumping into one another and… Continue reading

Living and working on a shoestring, we are often drawn into a mood of want, breathing the air of scarcity, and singing the song of a beggar. Developing big dreams on a shoestring requires an elevated level of commitment. When… Continue reading

  We dream; we grow;We move; we flow;We laugh; we glow.While here below,We live in anticipationOf pomp and circumstanceAnd graduation.We are matriculated in the school of lifeArticulated by toil and tears and strife.We are students of all that passesWork and… Continue reading

"It is in dying that we are born to eternal life." – Prayer of St. Francis So, let me die today and die daily.There is nothing in my instincts to pray such a prayer.But then, there is nothing in my… Continue reading