Finding Our Way Through the Wilderness

Jan 28, 2012 | Books

This life will eventually carry us through a wilderness, a period of life epitomized by hard- ships, suffering, wandering, and grief. The wilderness can also be a time to withdraw from the world, to give up something of significance in order to think, pray, read, and...

Keeping Success in Perspective

Apr 1, 2011 | Award-Winning Articles, Blog

This article won a $1000 Award of Outstanding Merit from the Amy Foundation in May of 2012. In the last few years the economy has made the phrase “downward mobility” too familiar for too many people.  To a person trying to make a living it means taking a...
What’s On Your Bucket List?

What’s On Your Bucket List?

Aug 1, 2008 | Award-Winning Articles, Blog

This article won a $1000 Award of Outstanding Merit from the Amy Foundation in 2009. In the movie “The Bucket List,” Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play the roles of two aging men who both get the news that they have terminal cancer. Nicholson plays...
People Don’t Forget What You are Made Of

People Don’t Forget What You are Made Of

Nov 3, 2006 | Award-Winning Articles, Blog

This article won a $1000 Award of Outstanding Merit from the Amy Foundation in May of 2006. One of the stories my grandfather tells on himself comes from his younger years, a time in life when he wasn’ t as concerned about his fellow man as the person he later...