One Thing at a Time
I’ve battled headaches for over a decade. They started a couple years into our marriage (it wasn’t the wife’s fault, promise). That said, I didn’t know their trigger, and it would be a long time before any improvements. Why was that? First, I didn’t want to take a pill. Two times the doctors suggested certain…
The Lord Provides (Part 1 of Many)
I took a job at a Christian school outside of St. Louis called Westminster Christian Academy (more on that later). The wife and I lived about 25 minutes from the school in South City. One of my future coworkers lived two doors down. I was ripe for a carpool! I would have been driving a…
Opportunity Cost
This is one of the most helpful concepts I’ve learned as an adult. It’s an economic principle. It makes perfect sense, and I think you can understand it and use it almost daily. Opportunity cost is the next best action you would do otherwise. Here’s an example. I’m writing this blog at the moment. I’ve…
Goodbyes
The last day of class was always a celebration while teaching in person. No one wanted to be there on the last day of class, and everyone was excited to get on with their lives. This was true for public school in the city, public school in the county, and private school in the county.…
How I Treat My Friends
I read through the Bible every year, and I believe I’ve done the following about three times out of the ten or twelve at this point. In the middle of Leviticus, when most people are completely checked out, there’s this gem: “Now if a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald; he…
The Blessings of the Internet
It used to be that, if you wanted to fit in and have a conversation with a normal person, that you needed to know things about the world. You would have needed to have read the most recent books, watched the most recent movies, and kept up with the most recent sports events, etc. Without…
Get the Big Picture
I spent so much of my time when I was a young Christian going deep into the specifics of the Bible passages I was studying. After all, that’s what I saw my pastors doing every week from the pulpit. I was likely inept and diving into certain things in an unhealthy way. I’m sure you…
Get in the Game
My late uncle was a longtime basketball coach. He actually helped coach Andre Iguodala when Andre was in high school in Springfield, IL. For those ignorant of professional basketball, Andre was NBA Finals MVP one year and shut down (which means defended well) LeBron James. My uncle was also a bit of a bulldog as…
Pray Small Prayers
I took the kids tent camping recently. We packed up the car with all that we thought we would need, drove 45 minutes to a nearby state park, and attempted to pay the $6 to camp that night. Alas, no campground hosts were available the entire time we were there, so I guess I saved…
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