Last weekend you had a wonderful afternoon splashing in the pool and playing on the water slide with your kids at a local water park. You long to repeat the experience again and again throughout the summer with a season-long access pass. And why do you want access to special deals and offers from your…
Access is valuable and exclusive. It gives you special admittance to events, places, information, and people. You can buy an all-access pass to your favorite theme park or to a backstage VIP event. With just a password, you can access files on an electronic device – both yours and someone else’s. Your connections with certain…
Fix The First Thing First What have you tried to “fix” today? Maybe it’s a relationship … an illness … a personal weakness … a struggle at work …your checkbook … In our attempt to fix things, we tap into ourselves. We tap into all kinds of available resources: conferences, books, advice, techniques, tools. Yet…
A mother and father look down at their new baby in love and wonder. What will that child become? In the delivery room, they have no way of knowing what the future holds for that baby. Not so with Jesus. Imagine the scene for Mary and Joseph after their firstborn arrives: “OK, Mom and Dad,…
Among his axioms for personal living, Thomas Jefferson (president of the United States 1801-1809) listed this one: “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.” The principle warns against procrastination by urging you to take care of day-to-day responsibilities immediately – tasks like household chores, paying the bills, calling a sick friend. But…