To A Great 2010!

Happy New Year! On this first day of 2010 I am looking forward to the New Year 2010 with genuine excitement and expectation! At 72 I feel great and have already accomplished more in my life than I ever imagined because of God’s grace manifest. I have nothing left to prove and no pressure to do anything but I am anxious to get going in 2010! I am a blessed man and extremely grateful for the life I have and have lived. My only remaining goal is to finish my race strong and run through the tape! It wasn’t always this way for me. I have known the emptiness that comes from following the world’s system of hedonistic materialism. I have set meaningless goals and accomplished them over and again without ever gaining lasting satisfaction or peace through the processs At 30 I...

A Statement of Purpose

My last two posts have been somewhat political and I’m not primarily a political person. I’m a registered Republican only because I have to choose in my state to vote in the primaries and the Republican platform conforms most closely to the only issues that I am sure of my Father’s opinion concerning. He hates abortion, He defines marriage as between one man and one woman, and calls homosexual behavior a sin and not an alternative life style. As far as I know He has never said what the top individual tax rate should be. I care about and prefer small government and low taxes and a strong national defense but I’m not passionate about them. I would easily vote for a pro-life Democrat over a pro-choice Republican. Those are my choices and I will live with them....

Success – Two Options – What’s Your Choice?

Everyone wants to be successful. If we were to stop 1,000 people on any street anywhere and ask them the question, “Do you want to be successful?” Chances are, if they are honest, 100% of them would say “Yes.” The desire to matter is in every human. But if we were to follow up with the question “What is success for you? How do you define it” we would get a hodge-podge of answers that would predominately be either immeasurable or amorphous. Things like “To Be happy” or “To have a lot of money” or “To be famous!” Meaningless non-answers. And if we asked a third question, “What are you doing every day to become successful by your definition?” the answers would be even more vague. The problem is that, while...

Some Facts – A Question – Now the Answer!

Since the end of WWII, 1946, the US has been the richest and most powerful nation in the world. We have achieved a level of material abundance that is unprecedented in world history. The poorest of our poor would be considered very rich indeed by way over half the peoples of the world who, by the way, earn less than $500 per year. We have conveniences and luxuries that 75% of the rest of the world only dream about and yet…as a nation our material prosperity has not proven to be the providence of happiness that it was promised to be, and hoped for, by our parents and grandparents and theirs. In fact, by all measures we as a nation are less happy with our lives than those who lived a hundred years ago All our “stuff” has not created a happy people and more...