Sowing: A Lenten Reflection

  Image via Wikipedia   The Parable of the Sower 1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. 2 Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. 3 Then he told them …

Sometimes simple is well enough

Something's should not be messed with, some traditions are sacred and should remain untouched. But there are always some who feel a little twist here and a little change here makes things better. Take, for example all the restaurants that feels a need to “fix” the American classic, grilled cheese. A simple delight as it is, but …

Weeping is the new laughing

Image via Wikipedia As I was searching for my daily positive quote to post on my Facebook page I ran across this one: "Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone." Ella Wheeler Wilcox I liked it, it struck me for some reason. My first reaction to it was, this is …

Seeds of Success

Over the weekend I was camping on the west coast of Michigan, a nice 4 day weekend, with lots of time to read. And read I did.. I finished one book, a novel, and started another, a political, and finished a third, “Seeds of success” a father and son book on what matters most. I …

NASA… Our best investment

Image via Wikipedia It has been 25 years since the space shuttle Challenger exploded upon lift-off, and our space program has never truly recovered. After the tragic explosion President Reagan comforted the American public but also pledged to continue with space exploration. With the second space shuttle tragedy President Bush began the process of grounding …

Jesus as a tag line…

Each day we all need to make personal choices regarding how we choose to live out our faith. We choose how we are going to react to our kids in the morning or how we are going to respond to the driver who just cut us off on our way to work. We are bombarded …

Our Last Freedom

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose your attitude in any given set of circumstances." -Victor Frankl   For anyone who has ever read this blog or my other blog, you know that freedom is a major theme for me. Often times I use the word Authentic Freedom because we all to often …

Reading list…

I just finished “Gross National Happiness” a book by Arthur C Brooks who also wrote “Who Really Cares” (also a great book to read). But back to the new book, Gross Domestic Happiness, this book looks at the national happiness of our country, what makes us happy and what doesn’t. It is a fascinating look at …

Can we help it?

Can we help it? Often times we will say, or we will hear someone say “I can’t help it” or something along those lines. The excuse is an easy one, we take the responsibility off of ourselves and place it someone or something else. We are becoming, and some would say we already are, a …

Ha Ha very funny

Today I had to practice keeping my anger under control, in fact that’s how I started my day. A part of my life currently is dealing with a bankruptcy, due to the failing of our store and helping other people out and getting taken advantage of. But that's for a different blog.  What happened this …