“Life handed him a lemon,As Life sometimes will do.His friends looked on in pity,Assuming he was through.They came upon him later,Reclining in the shadeIn calm contentment, drinkingA glass of lemonade.”[11] The Optimist as it appeared in a 1940 edition of The Rotarian I have read the story of the potter in Jeremiah chapter 8 many times, as I do a “read through …
“I was glad to be surrounded by precious people who made me feel like I mattered more than my disease.” (Chasing Life, P124) I met Hanna Freeman about ten years ago at a missions conference in Tennessee. The connection between us was almost immediate, and we found ourselves sharing stories of the field and our thoughts on God, life, and …
You have to find things that bring you joy to replace what you are no longer able to do…
Her paintings are like a walk through a healing garden. You can feel her pain and her joy while carefully studying the imagery in her art.
A few years back, I was given permission by my cardiologist and doctors to travel again. I was ecstatic and could not wait to get back “out there” discipling a group of colleagues with my organization, Abante International, and together, make a difference in the world. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks — I had been out …
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you. –Zig Ziglar While on hiatus from my book tour events in South Korea, which have been canceled due to the Coronavirus pandemic, I decided to take a mini holiday with my friend, Anna, …
When you have a near death experience, you begin to live life with a more focused view of what’s ahead. I often think to myself that one has to in order to survive the constant threat of dreariness you become a victim of. You yearn for more days, for more experiences, and at the same time, you find yourself unable to ignore …
In Korea, people welcome the New Year by going to the mountains, the sea, or a beautiful café with a view of the horizon to watch the sunrise. This morning, I decided to wake up early, brace myself for the freezing cold weather, and then make my way to Page 38 (a nearby café) to join others in welcoming 2021 the …
Reading your Bible and coming across a verse that lists “thirty gold dishes, a thousand silver dishes, twenty-nine duplicates, thirty gold bowls, 410 silver bowls of a second kind, and a thousand other articles” (1:9, 10) might not garner a lot of your attention. Like a list of begats, we might quickly pass over the list. However, Ezra’s detail, consuming five …
On today’s adventure while chasing life in South Korea, It was a most interesting day. I cleaned house and took care of my rubbish. Now, speaking of rubbish, in Korea you must separate rubbish in four ways: plastic, paper, food waste, and everything else. You have to purchase pink colored bags for this. So, I separated my rubbish well, then …