Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts
Thoughts of an Optimistic Writer
Tuesday Thoughts: Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
“…Never give in. Never, never, never, never–in nothing, great or small, large or petty–never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.” (emphasis mine)
–Winston Churchill
First, the bad news. World figures like Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, King, Reagan, and Thatcher–heroes of the past–are now few and far between.
Today, our earliest national heroes–from the founding of our nation through the Civil War–are vilified and shamed for […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What are Friends For?
“Keep smiling and keep shining, knowing you can always count on me, for sure; that’s what friends are for. In good times and bad times, I’ll be on your side forever more; that’s what friends are for.”
–“That’s What Friends Are For” (by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager; 1982)
Maybe it’s an age thing. The older I get, the more I cherish my friends. Perhaps some of you, now […]
Tuesday Thoughts: A Belated Happy Birthday Wish!
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds…to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
–President Abraham Lincoln (Second Inaugural Address; March 4, 1865)
Due to the biweekly schedule of this […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Have We Lost Our Work Ethic?
“You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.”
–Psalm 128:2 (NIV)
Those of you as long in the tooth as I were blessed with parents of the greatest generation. Tens of thousands of young men and women, some not even out of high school, went to war to protect our freedom and our country’s sovereignty.
Considering that their effort put their lives […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Where Have All the Heroes Gone?
“…Never give in. Never, never, never, never–in nothing, great or small, large or petty–never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.” (emphasis mine)
–Winston Churchill
First, the bad news. World figures like Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, King, Reagan, and Thatcher–heroes of the past–are now few and far between.
Today, our earliest national heroes–from the founding of our nation through the Civil War–are vilified and shamed for […]
Tuesday Thoughts: What are Friends For?
“Keep smiling and keep shining, knowing you can always count on me, for sure; that’s what friends are for. In good times and bad times, I’ll be on your side forever more; that’s what friends are for.”
–“That’s What Friends Are For” (by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager; 1982)
Maybe it’s an age thing. The older I get, the more I cherish my friends. Perhaps some of you, now […]
Tuesday Thoughts: A Belated Happy Birthday Wish!
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds…to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
–President Abraham Lincoln (Second Inaugural Address; March 4, 1865)
Due to the biweekly schedule of this […]
Tuesday Thoughts: Have We Lost Our Work Ethic?
“You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours.”
–Psalm 128:2 (NIV)
Those of you as long in the tooth as I were blessed with parents of the greatest generation. Tens of thousands of young men and women, some not even out of high school, went to war to protect our freedom and our country’s sovereignty.
Considering that their effort put their lives […]