Inspire

America is the only nation in the world founded on a creed. G. K. Chesterton Happy Birthday America! Two hundred and forty six years later, your amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties, [...]

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne. Hank Williams, Jr. A few years ago, one of our team members approached me to tell me she had met a person over the week-end who knew me. As [...]

If you can fill the unforgiving minute     With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,    Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,    [...]

The lights dimmed and wrapped us in a cloak of dark, while air whooshing through the cabin distanced us from conversation or any discernible sound of movement. Passengers distracted themselves [...]

I watched my youngest daughter, Macy, graduate from Bradley University yesterday. Like most parents witnessing such transition moments, I wondered out loud, “Where did the time go?” [...]

Happy Mother’s Day! How about a different take today as we celebrate this wonderful holiday and the amazing moms in our lives? A favorite movie of the women in my family is the 2005 version [...]

Does anyone go to the movies anymore? For some reason, Sally and I have been experiencing a bit of a movie renaissance, or at least a rebirth of our interest in attending them. When we were [...]

We are obsessed with the extraordinary. Extraordinary accomplishments. Extraordinary intelligence. Extraordinary experiences. Extraordinary wealth. Extraordinary beauty. Extraordinary danger. [...]

As I write this post, the moon is full, illuminating the night with its reflection of the day to come. Soon, the sun will announce its appearance with the first glow on the horizon. Today is [...]

Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” John 18:38 We have a curious love/hate relationship going with truth these days. There is a lot of “truth” being thrown about. My [...]