Author Archives: Jim Gleason

What is your immediate response when someone cuts in front of you on the highway, almost sending you off the road? My immediate thought is to speed up and do the same to them. How about when someone spreads a false rumor about you? What is your response? Again, my first thought is to justifyContinue reading “Active Mercy”

Our grandson plays high school football. He is a big man at about six feet two inches tall and around 250 pounds. The team uses him as a nose tackle on defense. That means he is lined up against two other large men on every play. He has to push and shove his way throughContinue reading “Giants in Front of Us”

Before we moved into our new home, we had to have the carpet cleaned. There was one large rust colored spot in the dining room. We couldn’t identify the source of the spot, but we were sure that we couldn’t get it out ourselves. We needed to call an expert. He was able to removeContinue reading “Spotless”

As we go about our day, it is the looking to the right or left that gets us into trouble. We know what we should do and we set our minds to do it. But somewhere along our path we notice something on our right that attracts us. We keep moving forward, but we alsoContinue reading “Looking Straight Ahead”

While I was growing up I played a lot of sports. Unfortunately, it seemed that I was always on bad teams. So bad in fact, that my teams inevitably won the “Sportsmanship” trophy, given to us mainly because we didn’t give up while losing most of the time. Frankly, I didn’t like that. I wantedContinue reading ““We Play the Game to Win””