I was eight years old and riding a quarter horse across some land my family owned outside of Roswell, New Mexico. As I rode away from the stables he repeatedly resisted and tried to reverse direction. After we had gone a couple hundred yards he suddenly turned toward the stables and darted toward them at […]

Several years ago I loaned my heavy duty top-of- the-line foosball table to a friend. I had tired of the game and my friend wanted the table, so I let him keep it with the assurance he’d return it when asked. A few years later I felt the urge to play so I called my […]

How does God deal with us when we choose to live as though he doesn’t exist? It might surprise you that God steps aside and turns us over to our base appetites (Romans 1:24-32). Maybe that doesn’t sound so bad. But is it? An episode of The Twilight Zone provides an answer. The story centers around a […]

We’re taught to travel fast and light. On the freeway we drive in the fast lane. If we want something we’re told to, “Go for it!” Immediate gratification often drives our life. We expect pain to vanish fast and success to arrive faster. Such expectations align with what we see on TV and the Internet. […]

Webster tells us an opportunity is a “favorable juncture of circumstances.” A moment when the elements for progress merge. The English playwright and poet William Shakespeare described such moments: There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads to fortune; Omitted, all the voyages of their life Are bound in […]