There are many wrong places that people can find ourselves in. We are warned to stand in Holy Places. By standing in Holy Places, we are less likely to find ourselves in any kind of trouble. Holy places are usually defined as a church, a temple, our family homes, and other places where we are…
Tag: World
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 The Unusual
I don’t know how many times in my life I have heard the phrase, “Hum, that’s unusual.” What is unusual to one person may be usual to another. We all must wear clothes, and so the clothing worn by those around us is the first thing we notice about each other, if they are unusual….
On Burdens
I remember many years ago seeing the Atlas statue where a very muscular male was portrayed with the world on his shoulders. There are people all around us who, in fact, feel like they are carrying the world around on their shoulders. The figure may be telling us that our burdens, the burdens of our…
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 ‘Little By Little’
We marvel at the wonders of this world and we see them as if they always existed in their current state when in reality they were probably years, centuries, or millennia, in the making. Very few events in history happen instantly even though that may seem to be the case by one just coming on…