Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty! (Proverbs 14:23 NLT) The daffodils are up in my yard, and I’m in full “I love spring” mode. Well aware that snow in April is always a potential dark horse around here, I appreciate every flower, bud, and branch I can smell and carry into the house—especially…
After writing my book, People Are Good: 100 True Stories to Restore Your Faith in Humanity, I learned a powerful lesson from many of my readers—you never know how your small acts of kindness can ripple into something far greater than you ever intended. Time and again, I heard the words, “The person who did…
Have you heard the story of David? Not the one where he slays the giant. And not the one where he sleeps with another man’s wife and then has that man killed in battle. No, not even the one where his own son tries to steal his throne. I am talking about the time when…
We recently adopted a four-month-old Bernedoodle named Khana. She is the sweetest ball of fluff, and her presence has brought a lot of joy to our family. Even though she had little human interaction before joining our family, bonding and training has been a smooth process. That is, except for crate training. For the first…
Do you ever have so many thoughts swirling around in your head that you can’t process them all? Recently, I spent the evening on my laptop, jumping from one internet article to the next. So many choices. So many voices. How could I select the best and bypass the rest? I went to bed feeling…
“So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong.” (1 Kings 3:9 NIV) A girl in the high school class I taught showed up one morning in a T-shirt that had Mickey Mouse emblazoned on the front. I paid it little attention. It never occurred to me that Mickey…