The most effective action we can take to improve our lives is Scripture memory. Reading the Bible empowers us, but memorizing the Bible ratchets up that inner power to an extraordinary level. There is nothing like it. Nothing. The challenge is actually succeeding with memory work. People often say ...
Crazy House
Optimistic people can be annoying. They sing too early in the day. They come back with a chirpy response when everyone else feels fired up to complain. They are smiling. Always smiling. I am one of them. I can't help it, though. I understand how perpetual joy can come across. It looks ...
The American Idol
I hope Carrie didn’t run to check her twitter feed the moment she stepped off stage, because some of the comments made me cringe. Most of them were written, mind you, by people who would be terrified to attempt what she did. Full disclosure: I was one of the critics for about fifteen minutes. I ...
The Well One
My brother is not quiet by nature, but when we were kids, he learned to keep things close to his chest. Shortly after my lupus diagnosis at twelve, he and I were in the backseat of the family station wagon, sitting patiently as the car idled at a stoplight. I remember watching him look out the ...
Sink or Swim
We learn best at our tipping point. But that is an idea that is not sinking in to some parents, these days. When I taught high school for five years, I could count on one finger the number of parents who called me to clarify assignment specifications. However, after teaching 5th and 6th grades ...
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