Category: Personal Growth

I have a hard time believing people value my presence. I tell myself things like, “Nobody wants to hang out with me” or “I didn’t get invited on their trip — they must not like me.” These are lies. At the very least, they are half-truths. It’s possible that some people don’t want to hang

“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.” — Psalm 32:8-9 About four years ago I decided I needed to

I recently learned two fascinating statistics about clutter: First, decluttering your spaces would eliminate 40 percent of your housework. Second, the average person spends between one and 10 minutes a day looking for lost items amid their clutter. That’s six and a half months of your life! If removing clutter results in more time and

April 29, 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of a dramatic landing on the deck of the USS Midway that required newly installed Rear Admiral Lawrence Chambers to make a $10 million decision. After the United States withdrew from the Vietnam War, Communist forces in the North began their descent on Saigon. By April 1975, South

Adam gets up every morning and eats an average breakfast and brushes his average teeth. He puts on his average clothes, combs his average hair, hops in his average car and drives off to his average job. Most of the time he has an average day in which he engages his co-workers in average conversation

As we celebrate Father’ Day, we should recognize that fatherhood is not merely a sentimental role, but a profoundly practical one as well. Fathers do far more than put food on the table, teach us to ride a bike or take us to our first baseball game. Fathers are critical to healthy child and human

And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. – Mark 6:31 * * * My wife and I recently had one of those free two-week subscriptions to Netflix. They offered to extend it