I was listening to a podcast the other day where an Agnostic/Atheist Bible scholar was being interviewed. When asked about why he ultimately lost his faith in a higher power, he said… “I just can’t reconcile the fact that there is so much suffering in the world with the idea of a higher power.” This …
Oftentimes when someone says to me, ‘do you have any questions?’, I’ll jokingly respond with ‘yes, what is the meaning of life?’ Maybe the inner urge that bubbles this question up is not so uncommon. I read this morning in Man’s search for Meaning that ‘a survey of 7,948 students at forty-eight colleges, was conducted …
I once wrote that ‘Life is the question, love is the answer.’ Victor Frankl in Man’s Search for Meaning wrote, ‘…it did not really matter what we expected of life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those …
There I was, tears streaming down my face as I knelt down next to my son’s bottom bunk bed in the back room of our 1984 single-wide trailer house, praying for a miracle. I’d just finished reading my 2 oldest sons their nightly bedtime stories and watched them drift off to sleep. As I stared …
This morning I woke up around 4:30 AM and read from our book of the month, Man’s Search for Meaning, for 30 minutes. Whenever I take the time to arise and read, I’m grateful, for mental and spiritual treasures seem to always await the sincere and searching mind. Today was no different. In my first …
Yesterday I watched a thought provoking new documentary on Netflix called Come Sunday. It’s quite a story about a Pentecostal preacher named Carlton Pearson who was, at one time, one of the most famous preachers in the Unites States. He was a man with incredible authority and close connections in very high places throughout the …
A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. Just because you know something, doesn’t mean you know everything. A read a post yesterday from a 7 figure networker that said, “A closed mind is the most expensive thing you’ll ever own.” Funny thing is, many minds become closed, after first being open a bit, and …
When we as people pass judgments on other people, it’s like we’re taking a photo of that person and saying, “This is it, that’s all there is.” The problem with this is, people are more like movies than they are like photos. A photo is a still shot in time. People always have a next …
Elon Musk, could very well be one of the most inspiring entrepreneurs on the planet. There was a period a few months ago where I did a fairly deep dive, learning as much as I could about his companies and philosophy. He became my new hero. That being said, I watched an interview of him …
At the end of last October I got inspired by Seth Godin’s consistency in blogging daily and I made a decision to follow in his footsteps. Today is April 8th and I’ve not missed 1 single day in over 150 + posts. I’ve blogged on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays. I’ve blogged when I was sick. …