Driving home from work this past Friday I heard this song (”In the Living Years” by Mike and the Mechanics) on the radio and it made me think about my letter writing and a lot of my motivation to be…

This quick and final post in a series entitled “Writing In Truth AND Love” will highlight the benefits and practical nature of sharing openly and honestly with the ones you love.  As we’ve already pointed out, there will be much…

Last time I wrote about the difficulty in writing both in truth and in love.  This week we are going to discuss the implications of doing such and how to handle various negative responses when the person you are communicating to…

Life has been crazy lately. But, when isn’t it? I haven’t been focusing enough on my resolution. I need to start making sure I do one of the bullet points off my list of tasks every week. Aside from that,…

The Bible’s command for us to “speak the truth in love” sounds very easy and simple on the surface.  However, to put it into practice is a whole new ballgame.  Anyone can find someone to speak the truth - and…

Yes, the title of this blog is sad, but true. And even more sad is that I searched the stltoday webpage for about 45 minutes (accumulated over 2 days), trying to figure out how to blog. Finally, I remembered that…

Eastern White Pine This is a picture of one of the many cards that my sponsor, Mrs. Janis Dillon, has provided to me for my letter-writing resolution. It is titled, “Eastern White Pine” and is just beautiful. This was a very…

In a day and age filled with prescriptions to get us through just about every aspect of each day and season of life, I want to offer up one simple trick that I’ve recently picked up along with my resolution…

I have a dual resolution: part one is to spend more quality time with my two kids and part two is get them as far away from the TV and video games as I can for the longest possible time…

Please allow me to introduce our six Healthy & Fit Resolution Challenge finalists: Annina, Travis, Jon, Deborah, Robert and Rachelle (with her sons Jacob and Noah.) In coming days they will begin blogging about their resolutions, the obstacles they face…