What Quenches Spiritual Thirst

In his book Sahara Unveiled, William Langewiesche tells the story of an Algerian named Lag Lag and a companion whose truck broke down while crossing the ...

Content with God's Gifts

One story tells of a mother and son who lived in a forest. One day when they were out a tornado surprised them.

The mother clung to a tree and tried to ...

Problems Aren't Always Problems

People call things problems that aren't problems. They're facts of life.

Success Can Be Deceptive

The comedy film Cool Runnings is about the first Jamaican bobsled team to go to the Olympics. John Candy plays a former American gold medalist who becomes ...

Thanks, But ...

Often we put a "but" at the end of a "thank you," as in, "Thank you, Lord, for friends, but I wish I had more"; or, "I'm ...

A Fuller Life

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might ...

Excellent Compared to What?

I can't think of anything I do but what somebody I know does it better. Joe is more disciplined to exercise, Bob plays better golf, Hymman is more ...

Happiness Is...

There is a fairy story about a wealthy merchant, loaded with riches, who was in despair. He wondered why. He asked his companions how he could find happiness. ...

A Simple "No" Would Suffice

"Officially, the results of the vote are forty 'yes,' seven 'no,' and one 'over my dead body.' "

Contentment, the Second-Highest Art

Next to faith this is the highest art--to be content with the calling in which God has placed you. I have not learned it yet.