Tag Archives: heart

Peace Everywhere

Bumperstickers proclaim “Peace”. Organizations promote peace. Periodically a peace movement will arise. As a teenager in the sixties I was apart of a peace movement when the Vietnam War was raging. I look back at that time and I am amazed at how little I knew. We all want peace and do what we canContinue reading “Peace Everywhere”

Attitude Makes a Difference

While I was in college, I had a job as a teaching assistant in a local junior high school. One day, the teaching assistants were given the assignment of putting together a package of instructions for the students. Several of the assistants were grumbling and complaining about this assignment. To be honest, it was tedious.Continue reading “Attitude Makes a Difference”

Unexpected Response

Have you ever given a gift to someone and they respond coldly to the gift and to you? Or have you done something nice for a person, only to have them diminish your kindness? Sometimes we do something kind for others and the response we receive is not what we expect. Our good intentions canContinue reading “Unexpected Response”

Washing

We tend to think of cleaning our hearts like washing the dishes or the car. We put in a little effort and use the right ingredients and everything turns out clean. However, we can’t do the same thing with our hearts. There are no good works or right amount of good intentions that can eraseContinue reading “Washing”

Important Things

Somebody has once said, “Failure is finding out at the end of your life that the things you put your efforts into really didn’t matter.” As you examine where you spent your time and efforts last week, how much of this time and effort will affect eternity and how much was spent on things thatContinue reading “Important Things”

Out With the Old, In With the New

I was thinking about what happens to our bodies when we get sick. A virus or bacteria often attacks us and is able to make us feel bad. When we go to the doctor, they prescribe some medicine or process to get rid of the attacking villain and replace it with healthy cells. Sometimes weContinue reading “Out With the Old, In With the New”