Category: Word of the Week

Happy Monday-after-Easter. The day after Easter always feels like this word-of-the-week… FRESH The emotional highs and lows of Holy Week have passed. It’s time to take the joy of the Resurrection into a new week. In many ways, today feels more like a new beginning than January 1st. I spent part of Sunday wondering what […]

Happy Monday. Something sort of cool happened a few days ago that inspired today’s word-of-the-week… Reminder A young lady knocked on the door last week. “I wanted to remind you that next weekend is the anniversary of the death and resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” “I knew that,” I replied, “but that’s […]

Happy Monday! I hope you’ll join me in today’s word-of-the-week… Re-inspired Saturday morning I met a hero. That doesn’t happen every day. Becky and I went to Denver to look at a new hand cycle. At the Top End booth we met Paul Schulte. As Paul prepared for his game in the national wheelchair basketball […]

Happy Monday! My week (and I’m guessing yours) will be consumed by the word-of-the-week… Choice Most of our lives are determined by the choices we make. I don’t know about you, but a lot of those choices just don’t seem all that clear. Sometimes it feels like we’re literally frozen by the inability to make […]

Happy Monday! This weekend I received a lesson on today’s word-of-the-week… Flexibility I’ve got sort of a single-track mind. I want to get an idea, develop it, and move forward. I’m not opposed to looking at alternatives—at the beginning. But I want to decide, and then get on with it. That’s not all bad. Some […]

Happy Monday! This is going to be a week for me to understand this edition of the word-of-the-week… PATIENCE I just have a simple question: how do I know the difference between patience and procrastination? I’m working on partnerships and sponsorships for Journey4Hope. I’ve made some contacts and done follow-ups. I don’t want to be […]

Happy Monday! This weekend’s tragedy in Japan inspires today’s word-of-the-week… Change Tens of millions of Japanese awoke to an everyday Friday. Then a devastating earthquake and an even more catastrophic tsunami turned their world upside-down. I know that feeling. Twenty-three years ago I decided to put some simple Christmas lights on my house, and a […]

Happy Monday! I’m beginning today with a perplexing word-of-the-week… Sacrifice I’ve never really understood Lent. It’s that 40-day preparation for Easter that begins this week on Ash Wednesday. My particular church community doesn’t emphasize Lent, so my impressions of it come from folks who seem intent on letting everyone know what they “gave up for Lent.” […]

Happy Monday! I’m curious about your thoughts on this edition of word-of-the-week… Learn It’s a simple word, especially for a guy who spent thirty-five years as a teacher. Everybody learns, right? What’s the big deal? It’s sad to admit that for about half of my teaching career, I didn’t have a working definition of what […]

Happy Monday. I’m betting that every one of us is challenged by today’s word-of-the-week… Priority I’ve written about this notion before (Lessons From The Jar). This seven-minute video illustrates the point about as well as any words. It’s impacted how I look at planning everything I do. Sadly, it also provides a good frame of […]

Happy Monday! I’m reverting to an 80’s movie reference for today’s word-of-the-week … Ganas Have you seen the movie Stand And Deliver? I watched it—again—over the weekend. I highly recommend it if you’re looking for inspiration. Stand And Deliver  relates the inspiring true story of Jaime Escalante and a group of students from a deprived […]

Happy Monday! I welcome you to perhaps the strangest selection yet for word-of-the-week … Sisyphus Do you know the story of Sisyphus? He’s a character from Greek mythology who offended the Gods. As punishment, Sisyphus was ordered to push a rock up a hill. Each time he reached the top, the rock rolled to the […]