Facing the Inevitable

Die early or grow old; there is no other alternative. And yet, as Goethe said, "Age takes hold of us by surprise."

Death Is Not the Enemy

Let me underscore ... an idea that human minds grasp while human hearts resist: "Death is not the enemy." Just think: if people didn't move ...

Fatal Disease

As when medical men examine an illness, and ascertain that it is fatal, they make this pronouncement, "He will die, he will not get over this," ...

Heedless Knowledge

Man always knows his life will shortly cease,

Yet madly lives as if he knew it not.

Don't Count on the Ideal

When you define contentment as an ideal match, you're subject to the fact that it's like passion: it often doesn't last long.

Nearing the Shepherd's Fold

Shepherds say that sheep that have spent the summer in the high country and are on their way back to the shepherd's fold anticipate their homecoming. ...

Spiritual Food Comes First

A missionary in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, reports that recently an African pastor passed through on his way home to Chad, where civil war was raging.

"What ...

Redeeming the Time

During World War II, economist E. F. Schumacher, then a young statistician, worked on a farm. Each day he would count the 32 head of cattle, then turn ...

Career from an Eternal Perspective

Career successes and failures--which look so huge in my day-to-day life--take on a much smaller look from an eternal perspective.

Living with a Purpose

You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.