Businesses are, in a way, like families. It used to be that a family was thought of as Mom and Dad, plus two or three kids - and maybe a dog. Today a...
If your happiness is based on external things, then what peace you may find in this life will be a fragile thing, regularly shattered by others.
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Nancy Franson, who blogs at the delightful Out of My Alleged Mind, recently reflected on a job she had as a teenager.
We’re on our way home from a family vacation, zipping down long ribbons of asphalt. July afternoon spills hot through the windshield...
For many of us, connecting work with spiritual life is an elusive quest.
I didn’t hear much about Joseph’s second robe as a kid. I can picture the first on early flannel graphs and take-home Sunday school papers, and I remember the Technicolor version, but the...
On the way to her tonsillectomy, we laugh, she and I, talk of what flavor of ice cream she’d most like afterwards, when it’s all finished and she’s home, what books I might...
“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and...
Right priorities balance on some razor thin edge (probably imaginary) and it always feels like I'm leaning one way or another. I'm typically at the office from 8 to 7:30 on Mondays, Wednesdays...
First of all, I HATE the phrase “church shopping.” But that is a phrase that people in our culture use. And honestly...
I have raised three sons. My oldest son is in college; my middle son just finished high school; and my youngest just...
Heavy dusk fire casts the wedding party’s long shadows across a patio overlooking the harbor, a crowd of young men and women looking on at Bobby and Emily, and the couple’s families gathered...
