Your life is important. Your life is valuable. Your life matters. And those are reasons why you shouldn’t wish your life away. Are you doing that? Well, ask yourself if you wish everything was different. Ask yourself if you wish you weren’t living where you are…or doing what you do for a living…or looking like you do…or anything else you might wish to be … Read the rest…
Most people on the planet…yes most…don’t believe in “a creator God”…much less “THE Creator God”. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the same old cliché: “I just don’t see any evidence of a Creator”. The evidence is all around you. In fact, the evidence completely and thoroughly surrounds you. And only a fool would ever make the claim, “there is no God”. … Read the rest…
Do you ponder tiny things? I do. I mean tiny, tiny things. Things you can’t even see…unless you look with your inner eyes. Way back in 1974 I was looking at a glisten. I don’t remember anything else about the particular day except I was feeling optimistic about something. Not sure what. Something. And I decided to write a visual description of my optimism. As … Read the rest…
You were designed to understand language and communicate. You were designed to share your story with others…and to be willing to hear or read theirs. Words are awesome gifts from God. Each time you write down your thoughts and share them, it’s an opportunity for someone else to know something they didn’t know before. Your thoughts become shaped images on a piece of paper … Read the rest…
It’s true. Any way the wind blows…it blows on creation. Not accidents. Not happenstance. Creation. The deeper our scientific research tools can dig, the more we see this is true. That’s great news, in spite of what skeptics might say or think, because being able to see the complexity in a single living cell can give you the assurance you’re not alone. Even scientists who … Read the rest…
It’s easy to see how young people can linger in darkness and angst. The world is full of it, so why shouldn’t they be? I remember, back when I was only about 19, how I thought writing about the struggles in life with a “dark” tone would show how “deep” I was. Yeesh. I can read my old notebooks, now, and clearly see how … Read the rest…
Would you consider yourself to be popular? Do you believe you have lots of friends? Does it seem like most everybody likes you? If you answered yes to all three questions, you might need to reconsider your worldview. It may be that you’ve aimed your power of persuasion in the wrong direction. Of course, that sounds counter-intuitive, but it depends on your worldview. If … Read the rest…