Friday, July 30th, 2010

Communication is the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing or signs.  Communication is something imparted, interchanged or transmitted.  (Both definitions were courtesy of Dictionary.com)
Communication involves a speaker and a listener.  Communication is a two-way mutually beneficial exchange at its most basic level.
How are you communicating?  Are you permitting your communication [...]

No man, for any considerable period of time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the truth.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Know this, trials are here to refine us and improve us.  If we did not experience trials, then we are not doing one of 2 things… We are not being different and we are not willing to be stretched.  Being different and being stretched help improve us and help improve our children and families.
What are [...]

Manhood:
Manhood. What is it? What, in our convoluted world is it suppose look like? John Wayne? Woody Allen? A hybrid of the two? What does biblical manhood look like? How is it played out in real life between exhausting commutes, financial and family challenges, and the sheer complexity of surviving in today’s pressurized [...]

The spiritual life cannot be made suburban. It is always frontier and we who live in it must accept and even rejoice that it remains untamed. –Howard Macey

Two major pregnancies have hit the airwaves this past month.
For those of you under a rock let me briefly recap the two.
The first one is a single mother of 6 children that gave birth to octuplets with the assistance of in vitro fertilization. The second one is a teenage girl giving birth to a [...]

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you to go on in spite of all.  And so today I still have a dream.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Yes we can.
- Barack Obama

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change—it can not only move us, it makes us move.
- Ossie Davis

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver