This letter is in Prayers from The Water’s Edge. It was the last of the one-hundred pieces I wrote and my favorite. I wrote it on a picnic table in a park in Copenhagen, Denmark early one morning. It was…

God gives us each other. We don’t need friends. But friends make the journey of life more doable and more enjoyable. I’m guessing we can’t have more than a few people we actually call a friend anymore than we can…

I dropped David off at school today. Summer is over. As of today, he is a fifth grader. I observed a bunch of parents at the other end of the school. The moms and dads dropping off their boys and…

I remember my summer days growing up in northwest Iowa. We played outside all day. Swimming, biking, and wiffle ball were the normal suspects. Nights were spent watching the high school boys play baseball against kids from neighboring towns. The…

Balance. Maybe we never quite get there. But some balance is better than the alternative: Rushed, worried, cluttered, stressed, lonely, and tired. Here are five ways to determine if your life is out of balance.  You have no enthusiasm to…

I hear lots of complaining nowadays. I don’t see as much positive action. Let’s change that. Starting today. Try practicing a few of these this week. I’m going to as well. Do a few more next week. Have fun and…

You want to grow. Lose a little weight. Save some money. Get along better with people. Resemble Christ more closely. So you make a directory of things you need to start doing. We usually fail. After all, most of us…

I’m a failure. I have failed more than succeeded at life. My dream in high school and college was to run a sub four-minute mile. I’m guessing I raced the mile or its metric equivalent over one hundred times. I never…