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My youngest son, Colin, competed in the Middle School Track & Field State Championship this weekend. He ran in the first race of the day during a sun-soaked event in Central Ohio. He was the third-leg of his school’s 4x800m track team. They ran very well and came in second overall. Colin’s second event came…
To my daughter, Jessica. It was ten years ago today that she had balloon-angioplasty at the tender age of six. She came into this world with three heart defects which required surgery. This surgery was required to let her scar tissue grow like she did. We should have known how much she would change our…
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine…
Perspective matters. When you live in a two-dimensional-world, perspective matters even more. Perspective helps me tell how far I am from other cars, where a hand is that I’m about to shake, when I’m close enough to the drive-up ATM. it even helps me determine the lengths that I need to go to in order…
There is the Fool’s Way, there is the way of the disillusioned ‘Sensible Man’ and then there is the Christian way of handling those things in life that lose their novelty. Remember from Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis, when he wrote. “There was something we grasped at, in that first moment of longing, which just fades away…
There is the Fool’s Way and then there is the way of the disillusioned ‘Sensible Man’ of handling those things in life that lose their novelty. Remember from Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis, when he wrote. “There was something we grasped at, in that first moment of longing, which just fades away in the reality.” “Now there…
There is the Fool’s Way of handling those things in life that lose their novelty. Remember from Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis, when he wrote. “There was something we grasped at, in that first moment of longing, which just fades away in the reality.” “Now there are two wrong ways of dealing with this fact,…
This past week marked a major milestone for Eye Need Hope. We’ve just announced our first conference. What?! That’s right on June 6th, from 9:00-12:00 we will hold our inaugural event. This makes the writings C.S. Lewis ring even more true. Here’s the second paragraph from the “Hope” chapter. “Most of us find it very…
My passion for inspiring others to have HOPE and helping them OVERCOME adversity has impacted many lives already. The largest impact has been to my own life. It’s inspired me to do things I never before even dreamed of or thought possible. It’s inspired me to form an organization, EyeNeedHope.com. It’s inspired me to read…
I’ve got’em. Maybe, you do too. At this time of year many of you are reeling from an expensive Christmas gift giving season. You approach November saying, “I’m not going to do that again.” But, you did. I’m right there with you. I’ve got reasons, really excuses, for all of my expenses. Some of them…