I have noticed with interest over the years how many people often feel unappreciated. They feel like they are taken for granted and that what they do in a family or at work is expected. The only time that their work is mentioned is when it wasn’t done or wasn’t done just right. Spouses (husband…
Tag: Love
On Being Right
Remember, when we were kids, how sure we were that we were right about something important (or unimportant)? The argument would go something like this: “Yes it is!” “No, it isn’t!” “It is!” “It isn’t!” “It is!” “No, it isn’t!” Sometimes, that would go on until an adult would say, “That’s enough!” We obviously subscribed…
On Things Tender
Tender is described as things delicate, soft, or gentle, and in respect to people, it is someone who is easily moved to sympathy or compassion—kind. There are tender things that happen in our lives every day, and sometimes we don’t see them for all the commotion of the world going on around us. Too many…
On Love
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you.” ( John 13:34) To love everyone, as suggested by that scripture, is to be able to see yourself, your hopes, desires, fears and your ambitions in everyone else. First compassion, then love. My granddaughter, Sarah (missionary), wrote a…
On God
To contemplate God, His power, love, intelligence and glory, etc. is like contemplating our solar system from an ant’s perspective. I remember standing, for the first time, on the South rim of the Grand Canyon and being in awe of its size and its beauty. If I were standing before the throne of God, if…
On Fear
The author, Dave Barry quipped “All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears—of the dark, of falling, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club and of these words: ‘Some Assembly Required.’” We all have fears of something and that something changes as we age….
On Communicating
As Jerry Seinfeld once quipped, “According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Does that sound right? This means at a funeral most people would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.” There are so many ways to communicate and the most common is with speech….
On Temples
Shortly after the Lord led the children of Israel out of Egypt, He instructed His people to build a place where He would meet with them and instruct them. This first structure was called a tabernacle, and it was a mobile unit that could, in a sense, be folded up and carried from place to…
On Human Value
Have you ever thought about the value of a human being – probably not, because in a civil society you can’t buy one or trade one, legally, anyway. Scientists have examined the chemical worth of a human being and as I recall, the sum value of our mineral makeup turned out to be only a…