The phrase “turn on” has multiple meanings. The one we want to address today is “to use,” as in turn on the light, turn on the stove, or turn on the breaker.
We get the same meaning from ...
Most people are city bred.
We run our lives by an urban clock. Fuel the car, stop by the market, call the repairman to check the plumbing. It’s backing up again.
Yet for most of humanity’s ...
Normally secrets are not a good thing.
They mean we are trying to fool someone. We want to present one front to them while we are something else inside.
Then there are party secrets, the surprise ...
Farming is a waiting game.
No one out there expects to place seed in the ground in the morning and return in the afternoon to harvest the mature crop.
That would be silly, wouldn’t it?
As ...
You stump your toe on a chair one night, and it aches for weeks.
You give the chair leg the stink eye each time you limp past. If only it wasn’t right there to where your foot would catch it in ...
Equal pay for equal work.
That’s the mantra for the modern world. It’s not fair for me to do the same work as you and not receive the same reward.
Give me what I’m worth! I want the full ...
How’s your attitude?
You know, the one that says, “Nah, not me. Ask someone else.”
Yeah, that attitude.
God says, “Get with the program! Put your hand on the plow! I’ve got stuff to get ...
Is your foot stuck in a bucket of concrete?
Are you on the edge of the dock, and you feel you are about to go over?
The water looks dark, and you can’t even see the bottom?
Do you think, woe is ...
Walk a forest trail.
Yeah, that sort, deep in the woods where the trees occlude the sky.
What do you see when the foliage overhead is thickest? I’ve got a clue for you: ALMOST NOTHING!
Here’s ...
The Circle of Life.
That’s from a 1994 children’s film. It means that what goes around comes around. One thing turns into another, and we can’t stop the process.
Living. Dying. All of it. We ...
There is no greater commitment that a couple can make than to pledge themselves to one another. Others might not understand, seeing him as a wild card, and her as too beautiful, but it is not what ...
It’s easy to blame our misfortunes on lack of opportunities.
However, what about the times we’ve had success in our grasp, and we’ve thrown it away?
What!?! We would never THROW AWAY ...
When children play fight, how do we tell the winner? That’s easy. The one still standing when the game is over.
A pirate poses with one foot on the chest of his defeated enemy.
A boxer … down ...
The phrase “turn on” has multiple meanings. The one we want to address today is “to use,” as in turn on the light, turn on the stove, or turn on the breaker.
We get the same meaning from ...
Most people are city bred.
We run our lives by an urban clock. Fuel the car, stop by the market, call the repairman to check the plumbing. It’s backing up again.
Yet for most of humanity’s ...
Normally secrets are not a good thing.
They mean we are trying to fool someone. We want to present one front to them while we are something else inside.
Then there are party secrets, the surprise ...
Farming is a waiting game.
No one out there expects to place seed in the ground in the morning and return in the afternoon to harvest the mature crop.
That would be silly, wouldn’t it?
As ...
You stump your toe on a chair one night, and it aches for weeks.
You give the chair leg the stink eye each time you limp past. If only it wasn’t right there to where your foot would catch it in ...
Equal pay for equal work.
That’s the mantra for the modern world. It’s not fair for me to do the same work as you and not receive the same reward.
Give me what I’m worth! I want the full ...
How’s your attitude?
You know, the one that says, “Nah, not me. Ask someone else.”
Yeah, that attitude.
God says, “Get with the program! Put your hand on the plow! I’ve got stuff to get ...
