This summer, my wife Hannah and I will celebrate our wedding anniversary. Fifteen years has taught me something important: you can love someone deeply and still slowly drift apart. It rarely happens all at once. It happens in little ways. A busy week turns into a busy month. One evening you are too tired to [...]
I wish I could say I’ve always lived out what Jesus said in Matthew 5:23. That call to go and be reconciled with someone who has something against you sounds simple when you read it. It feels very different when you have to do it. If I’m honest, my reasons for not going were never [...]
One evening last week, I stood in our driveway watching a beautiful white sports car start up and slowly disappear down the street. As our friends drove away, I couldn’t help but smile at the way God had provided for our family in such an unexpected and personal way. Our doctor had just made a [...]
My 10-year-old son plays football and one of the things he loves most about it is receiving helmet stickers. As a pregame ritual, players receive small, skull stickers for the exceptional plays they made in the previous game. Each week, when my son receives one or two stickers, the look on his face is priceless. [...]
Jim Rohn once said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” I like this quote because it makes me think about the important people in my life and how much time I spend with them. Encouraged by Rohn's statement, I took an inventory today of who I spend the [...]
We live in a culture where everything seems instant. This is especially true with communication. Email, texting, Facebook, and Twitter have trained us to speak spontaneously without much thought. Perhaps what is most interesting in this age of social media is that nearly everyone has a platform for sharing their thoughts in which dozens of [...]
We all want to win at life, to do better for our families, to be better at our jobs and to have better lives. But if we want perform at our best, we have to make changes to get better. We’ll never get the most out of life if we’re slowed down by the things we [...]
Proverbs 17:17 says, “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.” Many friendships are born during good times, but adversity reveals true friendship. Difficult times often take relationships to a new level. There have been a few tough times I’ve experienced that I can’t imagine enduring without [...]
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation began using pink ribbons in 1991, but the foundation took off in 1992 when Estee Lauder cosmetics teamed up with Self magazine to create an awareness campaign symbolized by pink ribbons. When you look around now, breast cancer awareness is everywhere! My recycling can has a pink [...]
There are many ways to express love. You can buy gifts, give compliments, a pat on the back, or a heartfelt smile. All of these are valid expressions of love. But there is something that speaks even louder to the priority of relationship than any of these things. That’s why love is spelled T - [...]
