Life Is 90 Percent Reaction

I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we react to it.

A Second Opinion

To start a discussion on core values, our youth pastor asked the teenagers: "What would you do if your doctor told you that you had only 24 hours ...

On Firm Ground

Before his novels The Firm, Pelican Brief, and The Client catapulted John Grisham to the status of "commercial supernova"--as Newsweek called ...

Eternal Fame Isn't Enough

Someone asked me if my dream was to live on in the hearts of people. I said I would prefer to live on in my apartment. You drop dead one day, and it means ...

Fear of Death

The Pillsbury Dough Boy. Cute. Cuddly. And wanted for attempted murder.

Well, not exactly ...

A woman in Arkansas was sitting in her car in a parking lot ...

What Do You Want?

What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, ...

Life in the Valleys

Sacrificing the routine is not what makes effective people. ... Most of us go through life for the peaks, rather than realizing that life is often lived ...

Err on the Side of Life

Alva B. Weir, an oncologist in Germantown, Tennessee, told this story:

"I was awakened from sleep by the telephone. On the other end of the line, ...

Nothing Trivial at the End of This World

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are ...

The Hope of Dying

George Palmer said before he died, "I'm homesick for heaven." It's the hope of dying that has kept me alive this long.