Even though it happened twelve years ago, I remember it like yesterday. Receiving that phone call—"your son is hurt"—frantically rushing home, wondering...
My work pays me to stand by while people fling mud at my product. Okay, maybe that's a little melodramatic, but no less true. As a writer, I get paid to work hundreds...
Sometimes work is difficult. Tensions can run high between supervisors and employees. We may feel helpless. We may dread the future. Sometimes we feel underutilized or unappreciated, and it affects...
A friend of mine—I'll call him Jack—got knocked down, run over, and ground into the dirt by everything the world could throw...
Somebody—probably a preacher—has said, "Don't put a period where God only puts a comma." ...
The Christian answers to those three questions are not "companion" and "boss" and "employee." Such working relationships do appear in the Bible. For instance, Jesus speaks of the centurion's...
Part of excellence in any pursuit is knowing when to quit while you're on top. The sports world is filled with stories...
Let your living spill over into thanksgiving . . . ...
When a small leak in the roof took me into the attic, I found my son’s two-foot sailboat leaning on its side. The plastic hull is red. The deck blue. The sails are...
A little boy played with his father's gold watch and accidentally broke it. Saying nothing, the boy replaced the watch in his father's drawer. When the father asked how his watch broke, the boy...
Two arborist brothers performed a marvelous feat in our yard today. They cut down, and into stove-length logs, two dying white pines and a diseased oak tree. Afterwards, they trimmed a second oak...
Zacchaeus was a wee little man....
Last week as I was leaving the house for the newspaper, my wife asked if I would buy her a medium cup of coffee. I drove to the Quick Check, parked my car...
George Washington Carver, the nineteenth century horticulturlist, created hundreds of products from plants . . . 325 from peanuts alone. His work improved rural economies—saving land, varying...
Make no mistake: I am a red-blooded, two-fisted, iron-pumping, rugby-rucking, middle-aged guy with persistent delusions of athletic competence. Because I am what...
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." —Eleanor Roosevelt ...
An Olympic ice skater brings upon two blades just the right mixture of body weight, momentum, and angle so that each blade is in sync with the laws of physics and motion. The...
When we were kids, we all wanted to make a big difference in the world: cure cancer, fly to the moon, or drive that shiny red truck to put out fires in burning...
"Why do you stay up there?" my mother would ask when Mr. Leavitt ate dinner with us on Sunday after church. "Up there" meant the old farm on Pleasant Ridge where he’d been...
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six. Heaven and Earth were finished, down to the last detail. (Gen...
