Impatient for Investment Returns

When our eldest daughter was old enough to understand what saving money was all about, my wife and I sat down with her and explained the value of money. ...

Estee Lauder's Example of Waiting

Shortly after starting her perfume business, Estee Lauder realized she had to persuade a cosmetics buyer to place her products in many stores throughout ...

Waiting for Final Resurrection

Two days have earned names on the church calendar: Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Yet in a real sense we live on Saturday, the day with no name. What ...

Waiting Like a Trapeze Flyer

Not long before his death, Henri Nouwen wrote a book called Sabbatical Journeys. He writes about some friends of his who were trapeze artists, called ...

Unselfish Tip

Many years ago, a ten-year-old boy walked up to the counter of a soda shop and climbed onto a stool. He caught the eye of the waitress and asked, "How ...

Healthy Self-Denial

Self-denial has its place in a Christian’s life, but God doesn’t ask you to choose what is most painful to you. If you followed this path, ...

Waiting for a Savior

In his book, Detours: Sometimes Rough Roads Lead to Right Places, Clark Cothern tells of a Christmas when his family encountered an unexpected house guest. ...

Why Wait

In Nouwen Then, author Luci Shaw writes:

I'm an impatient, restless person. Slowing down and waiting seem like a waste of time. Yet waiting seems to ...

"You Never Say Yes"

As I pulled my brimming shopping cart to a stop at the checkout counter, a toy truck caught my son's eye.

"Mommy--a truck. Can we buy it? Please?"

The Bitter End

Getting antsy during a day-long church seminar, a friend of mine leaned over to the man seated next to him and whispered, "Are you going to stay to the ...