I asked a friend the other day a question I’ve been pondering about a word. I asked, “What’s the last thing you ate?” He didn’t have to think about it. ‘Oatmeal,’ he said. And I said, “How do you know? Was oatmeal the ‘last’ thing you ate, or the most recent thing you ate?” His…
For the past six weeks or so, we’ve had rain in our area nearly every day. Sometimes it rained all day long and into the night. Some nights, it started raining in the early evening and didn’t stop until late in the evening the next day. And that kind of incessant rain for so many…
No matter what else happens in my life Today, this will be the shortest day I will ever live. The length of Yesterday grows with each passing moment in time. And, for certain, the certainty of the day called Tomorrow may never materialize. But Today? No matter what else happens, Today will be twenty-four hours…
Yesterday is the longest day you will ever live, and it’s getting longer all the time. No matter who you are, no matter the number of days the expanse of your life will ultimately contain, Yesterday happened. Of all the days God has given us, Yesterday is the only one that grows with each passing…
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…