Most people — certainly those younger than 60 — may only know “Ben-Hur” as a chariot race that appeared in the 1959 Academy Award-winning film starring the late Charlton Heston. That film used to be telecast regularly during the Christmas season, but it seems in recent years, we’re more apt to look for Ralphie in …
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Let There Be Peace on Earth
God created the universe for Creation to enjoy, not destroy. tVM As the Christian world prepares to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, we take note of the fact that — according to Wars in the World.com updated November 29, 20011 — 56 countries on planet Earth are engaged in conflict. …
The Star Thrower
Yesterday as we drove down I-10, my friend Gerry told me the starfish story he heard … As the story goes, the beach was littered with thousands of starfish struggling to return to the sea. Amid them was a young girl. She picked them up one by one and began tossing them back into the …
Lost and Found
In our professional lives and in our personal lives, we need to know four things: where we’ve been where we are where we are going and how we are going to get there. If a man knows those four things, his chances of making a positive impact on the world are greatly increased. There are …
Felix Lucero, 1895 – 1951
If 1% of people who read this post have a clue of whom Felix Lucero is, I will be shocked, pleasantly shocked, but shocked nonetheless. Mr. Lucero is as good an example as there is of a man who gave back to life more than it gave to him, and he performed quite extraordinary deeds …
Treating our Children with Dignity
Keeping in mind that every post on this blog is intended to make us better, I want to share a piece by C.S. Lewis that I read several months ago that is worth your consideration. “We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation,” Mr. Lewis wrote in his book The Four …
Vision Quest III: June 20, 2012
At ‘oh-dark-thirty’ Saturday morning, I sat in my back yard staring into the dark sky in the direction of Orion the Hunter in the hope of spotting a meteor or two as the Earth passes through the dust of Halley’s Comet. The annual event is called the Orionid Meteor Shower. In the stillness of the …
Vision Quest, part II: Three Notable Vision Quests
The population of the world is approximately 7 billion, and nearly 60% of all men, women and children on this planet claim to practice one of these three religions: Christianity 2.1 billion Islam 1.5 billion Buddhism 376 million Common among these three religions is …
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Vision Quest, part I
According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, a Vision Quest is a solitary vigil by an adolescent Native American boy to seek spiritual power and to learn through a vision the identity of his guardian spirit. Native Americans believe that each human is put on this earth for a special reason. That reason is not always clear to …
Once an Eagle …
The eagle wins! After several polls and multiple questions, our readers and subscribers — by no wide margin, but close enough to claim victory — have chosen. If God allowed us to return to earth as a creature other than man, we would return as eagles! That is certainly as good a choice as any. …