Stumbling Over the Truth

     Almost anything you need you ca find these days on the internet.  Between Amazon, Google, Walmart.com, and e-Bay a person can have most anything delivered within a short amount of time.  As a society, we have so many resources at our finger tips, and just one click items can be shipped to your front door.  Countless volumes of information stand ready at our finger tips, which causes me to wonder how anyone could fail.  But the truth is that all these advantages don't equate to success.  You can't order success online.        Success isn't something to obtain or arrive at.  It isn't a destination, it's a derivative of the journey.  And what is even more frustrating is the the road of success is often paved with disappointments and setbacks that serve to extend the road not to block it.  Failure often leads us closer to success.  David put it this way in Psalm 37:23-24,     "The step...

     It has been a long time since I last wrote.  I have often intended to, but never took the time to just write.  There have been many things on my mind that I have really wanted to write about, but maybe the most pressing is on the thought of value.      In an economically challenged world, value has become hugely important.  Our lives have become inundated with practicality and productivity.  No longer do we take the time to live, laugh, and love.  Value is given to everything, and unfortunately value drives our visions and goals.  Our time and more often our sanity is sacrificed doing things that we believe bring value to our lives in hope that we will achieve some level of worth that will make us satisfied with our lives.     One of the biggest questions of Jesus was, "What profit (value) does a man have if he gains the whole world, but loses his own soul?" [Paraphrase]  Something we all...

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are." -John Borroughs My twelfth grade English teacher made a purpose of giving her classes a wise saying everyday for her students to write down and think about. One of my favorites that i still remember today is, "Often people fail to recognize opportunity because it comes to the in overalls and looks like work!" America was once dubbed the land of opportunities, but sadly, as a nation we have failed to seize those same opportunities. Many of the people that I talk with are seeking a different life. For some it is the lure of materialism brought to a heightened awareness by seductive marketing. Others are fooled into dreams of "perfect" relationships by a Hollywood image or movie. Most people are looking for simply a change in their reality. There are other things people do to change their reality. For instance, my daughter changed her hair color just bef...