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Monday Morning
(4-minute read) One Monday morning, I got on an elevator, and a man was standing with his face down in his hands, saying, “Will this week EVER be over.” I was afraid to laugh, but I couldn’t help but smile. Thinking about it later reminded me of a minister friend who told me he was…
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Making Myself Unhappy
(3-minute read) Most of my unhappiness in life has not been caused by someone else. I did it all by myself. My first job after I got out of the Navy was repairing computers and data processing equipment as what’s now called a field engineer. This was before the age of personal computers, and they…
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As Yourself
(2-minute read) This morning I remembered an event from when our daughter Debi was very young. I don’t know exactly how old she was. She had not started school yet but was old enough to be learning the alphabet. I came home one day to her explaining how wonderful the letter Q was. There was…
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Core Issue of Life
(3-minute read) I was eight years old and in 3rd grade when I began getting my education in the core issue of life. Her name was Ginger Humphrey, and she was wonderful. Everything about her was perfect. I was raised with four brothers, and all my friends were boys. I knew almost nothing about girls.…
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This Day
(2-minute read) I have this day. In walking with the Lord, today is all we can clearly see. We know people by remembering the past, but the Lord looks at us and can plainly see who we are. One night many years ago, I had a dream. The Lord spoke to me in the dream,…
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Temptation
Temptation came this week. Immediately, having done nothing wrong, I felt guilty. It was as if I was assuming I was going to give in. Everyone has weak points, and in all of this, I discovered something about myself that I didn’t know. My central weak point was different from what I suspected. In the…
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Feelings
(5-minute read) “I’m having a problem,” I said to my wife. “Something’s happened to my mind. I can’t seem to think straight. My emotions rise up on a level with my reasoning. I find my feelings seem exaggerated. I have feelings about everything; something’s wrong with me.” My wife, Jo, looked at me with a…
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Fitting In
(4-minute read) There are certain jobs, such as actor, model, abstract artist, or football kicker, that you’ll often hear someone say, “I could do that.” They really can’t; not normally. The people in those professions have studied, devoted themselves, and possess the talent for their craft. My only consolation is the fact that those people…
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Complicated
(4-minute read) In 1981, I was offered a promotion to manage a group of specialists. I turned the job down after they told me all the men had an IQ above 150. I didn’t think I would be smart enough to manage a group like that. After a couple of weeks, a manager, several levels…
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Whispers
I developed an illness that, over several years, became much worse. In May of 2011, a specialist told me that a part of my brain called the hypothalamus was failing. There was no tumor or anything they could treat, and there was no organ replacement for that part of the body. My body temperature would…
Walking the path 