While we have a responsibility to discharge our duties as conscientious citizens, we must never put our hope in a…
Not long ago someone told me that there are only two kinds of marriages: bad marriages and hard marriages. At…
We are literally working ourselves to death to possess things for which we have no use in order to impress…
I can’t help thinking how different Ray and Patsy were from the rest of our congregation. Ours was a “yuppie”…
Choose to forgive the people who have betrayed you. By forgiving you refuse to allow this tragedy to destroy you…
In Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, there’s a turbulent scene in which a whaleboat pursues the great white whale. The sailors…
When a child dies, it often sounds the death knell for the marriage. Not so for my parents. Although their…
The rampant consumerism of the twenty-first century is unparalleled in the history of mankind. People live in huge houses with…
We may legislate no fault divorce laws and no fault insurance laws, but there is no such thing as no…
Speaking at our father’s funeral my brother said, “When Daddy took his last breath I knew I had lost an…