Maybe I just can't relate. As I watch from the balcony and warmth of my condo, fishermen will brave all weather conditions for the joy of landing a salmon or steelhead or jumbo perch. Now I can understand sitting in a boat when the weather is warm and the...
Can It Get Better?
As I write this I am aware that some of my friends and colleagues have faced hurricanes and earthquakes over the past few weeks. I am grateful that none of their lives were lost or injured. Houses can be rebuilt and furniture replaced. Please continue to keep them in...
Too Soon To Quit
It's too hard. I'm too tired. I've tried and it just doesn't work. No matter what I do it always ends the same way. Why bother anymore? I'm sure that God is too busy to listen to my prayers. These sound familiar? They do to me, mainly because I have used them myself...
Manage Thyself
Financial management, time management, pain management, health management, relationship management. There are so many management areas offered to us that they seem to go on and on, almost ad nauseum. There is always someone who seems to have a handle on how you can...
Hundred Yard Gasp
I have never been much of a marathon runner but I am amazed at those who have the endurance to run marathons, especially those that are lengthy. The starting line of a race never really shows the hours that runners have put in to compete. What does reveal the...
Don’t Give Up
"The heights by great men reached and kept was not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas...
Who Says You Can’t?
I am puzzled by the different phrases that people use, that even I have used, without really giving any thought to whether they are true or not. I am thinking of two this morning: "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink." The second is like unto...
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