If you think about it, modern culture puts tremendous effort towards improving efficiency and convenience in everything we do. Less effort brings satisfaction, a sense of triumph over the world, and even joy. We want “easy!” You might say that we of the modern age are addicted to “easy” if we can achieve it. Now,…
I watched an incredible mountain race this past Saturday in Girdwood. The race is part of a national mountain racing program called the Cirque Series, wherein intrepid and profoundly physically fit racers compete against themselves and one another in places like Arapahoe Basin, Colorado, and Snowbird, Utah. The upcoming Colorado race is an 8.8-mile circuit…
The other day I was having a conversation with my wife. I was listening to her, or so I thought, and had to look up at her and say, “I’m sorry could you repeat that?” You see, I was allowing myself to be distracted by my phone. And I had to admit and confess that…
Back in my college days I was looking for a job that could get me some money from a short-term commitment. I had a busy schedule, but I could set aside a day and put some hard work in. As I walked past the school’s Job Board, a posting caught my eye. Window washing –…
On April 17, 1790 the American founding father Benjamin Franklin passed away at the age of 84. He had developed a notoriety for his smart turns of phrase and apt proverbial observations. Just a few months before his passing, he wrote a letter to a French scientist named Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, concerned over the doctor’s…
Galatians 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” Last Saturday, my wife and I decorated the house for Christmas. I had to walk outside to the shed to gather the remnants from Christmas’ past for the task….
If you were to ask my parents what they thought of having a pianist for a son, you’d undoubtedly hear the standard boilerplate response. They both love the fact that I’m a musician and they loved having a house filled constantly filled with piano music. But dig down a little deeper and you’d discover from…
The wicked have laid a snare for me,but I do not stray from your precepts.—Psalm 119:110 It can be difficult sometimes to place yourself into the lives and the circumstances of the writers of Scripture. You read their words and try with your mind’s eye to imagine the scene. And even if the mental image…
Many people take pride in the idea of self-reliance. There is a common thought that I can take care of things by myself. The adage, “pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps” comes to mind as one way of explaining the self-reliance principle. I am a person who likes to be prepared and to think…
