In recent weeks, I’ve been chatting about the seven days we all have to navigate in life. Epochs of time that God has designed for us to manage and experience. Previously, I’ve mentioned Someday, for dreaming, and Any Day (now), for waiting. The next day we’ll consider is … Every Day, for living. Probably the…
In my book, “If I Should Die Before I Live,” I outline the seven days I believe all of us have to live. Seven specific epochs of time, all of them different, each of them challenging. Last week, I talked about one of those days: Someday. The next day that’s a challenge for most of…
In my book, “If I Should Die Before I Live,” I suggest that there are seven significant days that all of us must navigate in order to ‘sort out’ what matters most in our lives. Those days are not like Monday or Tuesday or Thank God it’s Friday. Instead, they are more like epochs of…
My friend Bill says this world is a morally broken pain machine. I’m convinced he’s right. I’ve often wondered what it would be like if God walked around this morally broken pain-machine world collecting all that pain from all of us? What if God decided a world with no more pain. what if he had…
In any given week, all of us have hundreds if not thousands of opportunities for self-expression. When we get up in the morning, we get to express ourselves by preferences. Every time we sit down in a restaurant, as we look at that menu, we get to decide what we would prefer to drink? What…
If I counted correctly this morning, the number came to 201. I’ll talk more about that number in a couple of minutes. But first … One of the things we learn very early as human beings is the importance of numbers. “How old are you,” asks a new parent of a child first learning to…
If you come over to my house and check out my closet, you’ll find two or three brand new shirts I haven’t worn yet. I got them for Christmas. I’m not even sure Ivetaken the tags of them yet. New shirts, sweaters, a new pocket knife. I got a lot of new stuff this year….
In 1983, if you went to the movie theatre to watch a George Lucas film, just before the movie began, an electronically generated low to high frequency sound would come booming into the theatre, as a THX sound system prepared you for the incredible sound system you were about to hear. And as the long,…
I’ve always been fascinated by the relationship between skilled fiction writers and the actors who portray the characters in their stories. Movie and television writers can take a popular novel and re-write it into a script, with lines of dialogue for fictional characters and descriptions of pretend-scenes. And then actors can transform that script into…
My wife came to me the other day, with one of her necklaces, asking for help. Sometimes, the hooks are just too small for her to navigate, especially when she’s working behind her neck. I’m the helper in that case, managing the necklace fastener. But, occasionally those tiny chains that jewelry designers seem to love,…