Whose Thoughts Are You Alone With?
Do you spend time by yourself, thinking about your life and the world around you? It is sometimes referred to as being “alone with your thoughts”. As I reflected on that saying I began to wonder how often the thoughts we are alone with are genuinely ours. So much of what we think has […]
Hope and Mr. Jones
I met Mr. Jones early into my cancer treatment. We had our radiation treatments one right after the other. I was first, then Mr. Jones. We would see each other several times a week as we each waited for our appointment time to come. Often we would joke about me leaving enough radiation in […]
Leaving The Valley Of Regret
We all have things in life that we wish had worked out differently. Whether it is an ill-advised decision or a lost opportunity from times gone by, there are things in our past that serve as reminders of our inadequacies and failures. When we look upon these events and learn from them they become […]
A Changed Life
Several years ago I led a men’s prayer breakfast group, and in that group we had a fella who had been making a wonderful life change. He had been transformed from a rough, hard man to a softer man who worked diligently to think of people besides himself. His wife was a loving and […]