The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness. Pope Benedict XVI In 1979, I won the Boston Marathon. I was 10 years old. Nevermind the fact that the [...]

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, [...]

“Thank God it’s over,” the weary flight attendant declared, patting my shoulder as I passed her on the way to my seat. Her sentiment had the sound of finality and left no room [...]

Innocence is what we allowto be gifted back to usonce we’ve given ourselves away.There is one world only,the one to which we gave ourselvesutterly, and to which one daywe are blessed to [...]

We recently had a farewell dinner with some friends who were moving their family from Indiana to Pennsylvania.

May I be so bold as to share some good news? I realize that the very notion of “good news” might be somewhat radical in our world of hyper-negative, the-sky-is-falling soundbites. I guess I’m a [...]

Can you remember that time in your life when it was all in front of you? A point in your journey where your hopes for the future so far exceeded any baggage you had collected along the way that [...]

Christmas Eve is here, heralding the celebration of Christ’s birth, the closing of the peak shopping season, and the shift into a new year. For many of us, Christmas remains one of the strongest [...]

The crowd was electric with anticipation. The lights were low. The background music was barely audible as 18,000 individuals contributed their own buzz to the arena. In seconds, the band would [...]