Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: We Are as We Think
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
–Former football coach Lou Holtz
Last week I was privileged to sit in on one of my spiritual mentor’s Sunday School lessons—her final one after fifty years of teaching. The lesson was from 2 Timothy. Listen to these words, spoken by the Apostle Paul almost two thousand years age.
“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Friends? Who Needs ‘Em?
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
—Khalil Gibran, author and poet
Three years ago, then Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy announced his concern about a rising epidemic. It wasn’t hypertension, heart disease, cancer, or the re-emergence of Covid-19. It was loneliness.
Even before the Covid pandemic of 2020-2021, adults in the U.S. were reporting loneliness as a personal problem at a […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What’s Your One Shining Moment?
“Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration.”
—Roger Staubach, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback
I neither have, nor ever will, experience the emotion, intensity, and adrenaline bundled in one’s pursuit of a national championship. But Geno Auriemma, coach of Connecticut’s Lady Huskies basketball team, has. It was on full display once again during the Huskies’ semi-final game with South Carolina’s Lady Gamecocks week before last. And the coach didn’t […]
Tuesday Thoughts: When We Ask, “Why?”
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
the Apostle Paul (Romans 8:28 NIV)
First, let me ask for a little grace from my non-Christian friends and readers. This being Passion Week, leading up to Resurrection Sunday, it warrants a post about events of that time. But if you’ve ever asked, “Why?”, this post is for you too.
Jesus’ resurrection is the seminal event in […]
Tuesday Thoughts: We Are as We Think
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
–Former football coach Lou Holtz
Last week I was privileged to sit in on one of my spiritual mentor’s Sunday School lessons—her final one after fifty years of teaching. The lesson was from 2 Timothy. Listen to these words, spoken by the Apostle Paul almost two thousand years age.
“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Friends? Who Needs ‘Em?
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
—Khalil Gibran, author and poet
Three years ago, then Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy announced his concern about a rising epidemic. It wasn’t hypertension, heart disease, cancer, or the re-emergence of Covid-19. It was loneliness.
Even before the Covid pandemic of 2020-2021, adults in the U.S. were reporting loneliness as a personal problem at a […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What’s Your One Shining Moment?
“Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration.”
—Roger Staubach, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback
I neither have, nor ever will, experience the emotion, intensity, and adrenaline bundled in one’s pursuit of a national championship. But Geno Auriemma, coach of Connecticut’s Lady Huskies basketball team, has. It was on full display once again during the Huskies’ semi-final game with South Carolina’s Lady Gamecocks week before last. And the coach didn’t […]
Tuesday Thoughts: When We Ask, “Why?”
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
the Apostle Paul (Romans 8:28 NIV)
First, let me ask for a little grace from my non-Christian friends and readers. This being Passion Week, leading up to Resurrection Sunday, it warrants a post about events of that time. But if you’ve ever asked, “Why?”, this post is for you too.
Jesus’ resurrection is the seminal event in […]