America has a turnaround culture.
We pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. Put on a new leaf. Turn to the sun. Get up on the other side of the bed.
Each of these means the same. We change our ...
A brilliant sunrise is the best start to any day.
It’s life returning to a darkened sky, and it lifts our spirit along with the rising sun.
Revelation 7:16-17 tells of the rising of the Son, of ...
Picture the bee.
Yes, the humble bee. To be more specific, we’re talking about the humble bumble bee.
It’s big (for a bee) and ungainly. If we look at it from an engineering standpoint, it ...
The dumps are no place to be.
We want out, to be in the sunshine, and to have a smile on our face.
God lifts us up from the shadowy places. We see this in the life of Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles ...
Think about it.
How do we express excitement?
Those of us with children will remember them sitting on their hands to keep from telling a secret. The excitement of the impending revelation was ...
Borrowing money makes modern society work.
We get that new car when it’s most useful, right now, and we can get to our job on time.
That big house is there for our children, and they can enjoy ...
Years ago, we either paid by cash or check.
The digital world was a future dream, and credit card impressions were imprinted into paper, if we could use them at all.
Businesses had to verify our ...
A birthday party is a time to smile and be happy.
We have every reason to expect an excellent time: friends, good food, and presents in the end.
Who wouldn’t want to attend a birthday ...
Earth can be magnificent.
Travel the globe and we’ll uncover beauty beyond compare. The Serengeti. Victoria Falls. The Great Barrier Reef. The rolling sands of the Sahara. The Canadian ...
Movie credits can eat up as much as ten minutes of a film’s total run time.
Writers devote pages to bibliographies to give credit to quoted sources.
We can’t steal other people’s ideas ...
What we can touch is easy to love.
Grandma’s vase, the one we inherited and treasure. Each time we dust its patterned surface, we feel her presence over again.
A puppy when it jumps in our lap ...
Much of our focus is driven by opinion.
Our opinion. Their opinion. Public opinion.
We call it peer pressure, social influence, or keeping up with the Jones. It’s all the same. We’re driven to ...
We can become inured to the most beautiful things.
They become background to us, and we forget to see them as the magnificent vistas they are.
Sunrises. We see one every day on the way to work, and ...
