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Watching the Olympics I am struck by missed opportunities. In volleyball it is the bad serve at a critical point of the match. In baseball it is the failure to drive in runners in scoring position. In golf it could be one miss hit stroke. In gymnastics one slip can make a huge difference inContinue reading “Redeeming the Time”

Have you ever seen somebody do something so well that you responded by thinking or saying, “They were born to do this”? Perhaps it was a musician who transformed you to a higher place. Or you watched an amazing athletic performance, like that of an olympian, and you thought about their giftedness, and hard work.Continue reading “Gifted”

Have you ever broken a promise? I honestly can’t remember if I have. That is probably because broken promises hurt the promise recipient and generally only mildly affect the promise giver. So I may have really hurt someone without intending to and without consequences to me. There seems to be a pandemic of broken promisesContinue reading “Broken Promises”

When I was young, a boy could get a job as a paper boy. The paper boy had to get up early every day, go get his allotment of newspapers, fold them, put a rubber band around them, and ride his bike around the neighborhood delivering the newspapers. Once a month he had to goContinue reading “Paper Boy”

Every once in a while my wife will say something that I do not understand at all. Most of the time this happens after we have been quiet for a while. Then she will speak about a subject that we haven’t discussed, at least not recently. You see before she has spoken, she has beenContinue reading “What?”