Change is difficult. We fear moving forward. We fear remaining stuck where we are. It’s fear all the way around. Working with fear remains a vital part of being alive. As a boy, I was a very good swimmer. When I was nine or ten, I took my first deepwater test. It occurred Read more…
Thomas Edison worked feverishly to discover a suitable element for the filament of his light bulb prototype. He and his assistants tried many, perhaps hundreds or even thousands of different elements. Each attempt ended in failure. Nothing worked. Feeling great despair, some in his lab wanted to give up. But Read more…
Each of us knows the fear of death. Our lives are like blades of grass, wrote the Psalmist; whose other side is salvation/whose meaning none of us will ever know, wrote the poet Mary Oliver. Life is fragile and fleeting, while death is final and enduring. But what if the fear Read more…
In the book of Exodus, God unleashed a series of horrific plagues against Egypt to liberate the ancient Israelites from slavery. Then He enabled Moses to part the Sea of Reeds, to help them avoid recapture by Pharaoh’s army. But even after witnessing these extraordinary miracles delivered on their behalf, Read more…