We’ve all seen parents trying to live vicariously through the lives of their children. A mom living her violinist dream through her daughter who would much rather be an engineer, or a dad pushing his son on the football field when the young boy would rather be a singer. It’s hard for...

Do you know your child’s personality type?

With Easter events behind us, I was again touched by how hard it must have been for our Father to hear the cries of a world dead in sin and ravished by evil, but also the cry of His only Son in agony, shame and abandonment on that cross. And to...

Cape gooseberries grew in my granddad’s garden and sometimes in our backyard. The deepest childhood pleasure came from scouting out the ripe and ready ones. They were the ones whose balloon-like sheaths had turned from green to straw-color. Peeling away the sheath was like opening presents...

Freedom is the stuff of wars. What irony! People will give up almost anything for it. Freedom promises  both peace and joy at minimum and, to the mind of some, also power or prosperity. It’s more often yelled than it is whispered because it is an inalienable basic right. I think we...

It's not hard to dream in January. Perhaps Christmas reignited just enough of our childlike (never say childish) imagination and propensity for fantasy. And now we have high hopes and ideals for our future.

Not you? 

Maybe your boss, therapist, or life coach nudged  you to do some goal...