Do you ever feel like you are scanning the horizon for an answer from God? I sure do! We live with so many uncertainties today that getting an answer from heaven is at a premium. What about my health problems...unemployment...financial worries...marriage...
My wife is a major dog lover. There's little she won't do to make her two dogs happy. And they reciprocate! Me...I'm more of a dog "liker," not a dog "lover." They must know that and hover around my wife instead. She puts up with most things—their bad habits,...
Ever thought of your life as a story? Maybe a love story? A drama? A mystery? A thriller? A work of science fiction? A battlefield? A story of triumph and tragedy? A strong case can be made that it's "all of the above!" You are in the midst of living out an epic novel...
Ever have days when you can't seem to shake off feeling discouraged by life's unrelenting problems? For some reason they seem to really crowd in during the midlife and beyond years. It's very common for marriage dissatisfaction to surface. Regrets and disappointments...
Did you know that the first of the boomer generation is turning 70 this year? As you recall, we exploded onto the scene in 1946 and swelled to 76 million by 1964. I can remember a popular phrase at the time was to “trust no one over the age of 30.” We’ve come way past...
In the past, Churches used to have graveyards nearby that parishioners walked by to get to the services. While a bit morbid for today's church culture, the practice did remind people of their mortality. I experienced something close to that recently by visiting a...
If you've done any hiking in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, you soon become familiar with the term "talus" to describe the myriad of midsize rocks that cover the upper elevations. The treeline ends at 11,500 feet and you are quickly greeted by an a talus welcoming...
"The past doesn't define you, it only describes you." When I heard that statement spoken to a group of men, I thought it also applied to those of us on the midlife journey. That's because one of the mountains of midlife is the Mountain of Regrets and Disappointments....
One area that seems to trip us up frequently deals with managing our expectations. Or better said, managing our unmet expectations. Without realizing it we have expectations for everything. From less serious things like how long we have to wait in line, how many red...