You can observe a lot just by watching. (Yogi Berra, late All-Star major league baseball player). Berra was known for his malapropisms (misused words), but sometimes there’s wisdom in them. As he implied, we often see but don’t fully comprehend what we’ve seen. It may...
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. (Albert Einstein, late world-renowned scientist) Though we are created equal (US Declaration of Independence), we don’t all have equal skills or talents. We experience certain limitations when we try to do something beyond...
Not knowing how or what could fill the deep longing of our soul is a gnawing ache. (Lysa Terkeurst, Devotional writer) “Empty is a heavy load to bear,” Terkeurst writes. She says that such “a search can seem both futile and shattering at times.” So many people appear...
Do for someone what you wish you could do for everyone. (Andy Stanley, pastor & TV preacher) We live in a troubled world, and whether it’s somewhere across the oceans or in our own neighborhood, we see many people with great needs. We wish we had unlimited...
At Christmas, all roads lead home (Marjorie Holmes, late columnist and author) It’s just one week till Christmas, and many folks are planning their trips “back home” to join their families. Christmas stirs many memories, and we often long to bring back those good ol’...
Shortcuts Learned from Someone Over 70 for Those Under 30 In 1850 an English explorer named George Everest was surveying the Himalayan mountain range when he discovered the highest peak in the world at over 29,000 plus feet. Today that mountain is known as Mt....
In 1968 I was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army stationed in Ft. Riley, Kansas. That fall I attended all the home football games for Kansas State. At the time Kansas State was a member of the Big 8 Conference that had four powerhouse teams: Oklahoma, Nebraska,...
Most of us are familiar with the story of the tortoise and the hare. The tortoise may be slower, but he wins the race. The pacespeed of life in the fast- paced, high- tech world of the 21st century is fast, faster, and fastest. Yet all of nature seems to resists...
Dr. Boris Kornfeld was a Russian Jew who was a prisoner in a gulag during the 1950s in Ekibastuz, deep in Siberia. Because Kornfeld was a doctor, the Russians used him in the hospital. One of his patients was suffering from a disease known as pellagra. It is a disease...
During the 1890s, Oliver Wendell Holmes was the chief justice of the Supreme Court. One day he was traveling on a train and had all of his papers spread out on the seat across from him, next to him, and even on the floor. He was totally consumed in studying the papers...
The following are excerpts from a newspaper advertisement run by the Cadillac Motor Company in 1915: “The Penalty of Leadership In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested...
Getting it wrong: The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Getting it right: When you mock God, shouldn’t someone make you ashamed? (Job 11:3) The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was founded in 2005 to mock God and ridicule intelligent design theories....