Spiritual Progress

Many people have asked if I would post a list of the books that I read in 2006… here it is. For those who may not know, at the beginning of last year I determined that I would try to read one book each week. I made it! The fact that I read them does Read more

You know that feeling you get when you are traveling and you are a bit nervous that you have left something at home that you will have to do without? Well I had that feeling… I was pretty sure that I had packed a suitcase for this trip. Yet when we arrived in Hungary – Read more

At the almost half-way point of the Lenten season I would like to chronicle a bit of my journey with the experience thus far. Without a doubt I am thankful for this expedition. From the start I thought that participating by fasting would not be nearly enough to gain the full benefit of what Lent Read more

I don’t know how the discussions go in your home, but it seems that my kids are constantly telling me that I need to slow down. Kids sure are smart. Truthfully my wife is my greater conscience on this topic. I just don’t slow very easily. I’m stuck in fifth gear rollin’ in a four-speed Read more

My daughter gave me an innocuous little gift in my stocking this year. To the best of my knowledge there was no double meaning intended, but a much deeper meaning is precisely what I received. What was the gift? Two of the seven dwarfs… Happy & Grumpy. Maybe I just want desperately to believe that Read more

Who knew? Have you ever learned a lesson from an unexpected source? I’m in the middle of one of those lessons now. Our church (my employer) is in the middle of a building project. There is always something exciting about that process. This happens to be a major project for us. After many years of Read more

Habit #7 in Steven Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People says that… “the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life is investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.” The translation of that means that we are responsible for Read more

I am a complicated person. I doubt that anyone, certainly not my wife or anyone that knows me very well, would ever accuse me of being simple. I only wish I had a simple life. “The real path to greatness, it turns out, requires simplicity and diligence. It requires clarity, not instant illumination.” – Jim Read more