I hate to admit it, but one of the most terrifying movies I ever saw was Jurassic Park. It was the Tyrannosaurus rex that freaked me out. That screech sent chills down my spine. Every time I open an old ironing board in a hotel room, I hear the same sound and shudder. This animal was so big, the earth …
Words to Remember When You Have “ONE of THOSE Days!”
It was one of those days. I woke up with a crick in my neck. You know the kind, where you can’t turn your head. I could only look to the left. To look to the right I had to turn my whole body. That’s why I didn’t see the Lego. As I got out of bed I stepped on …
Two Principles that Can Change the World
Last night I was captivated by two speakers at the Compassion International appreciation banquet. Both men began their lives in hopeless social, spiritual, and physical poverty. But they didn’t stay there. People they had never met lived out two principles that changed these boys lives and as a result, changed the lives of thousands of other children. A 23 year …
What Really Defines You?
One of my first memories is of the day I waddled into the room where my parents were entertaining people for dinner, wearing a low slung, loaded diaper and desperately needing help. I cleared the room! A moment like that might make a person avoid dinner parties the rest of his life. On my kindergarten report card, the teacher wrote …
5 Resolutions Empowering You to Spit in the Face of Fear and Live!
Last week Americans watched in horror and some with fascination as two young men paralyzed a city of more than a million souls. For days people huddled in their homes, mostly because authorities requested it as a strategy to smoke out the cowards who had planted bombs at the Boston Marathon, but many others huddled in fear. I am …