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“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” [...]

I’ll file this one under “rant”. I’m just going to type about something that’s been prevalent, annoyingly so, on my mind for the past 6 months.
When my son, Logan, was in the cardiac ICU unit of Boston’s Children’s hospital, I took part in dozens of conversations with the parents, relatives, and friends of children [...]

For reasons I’ve just recently written about, these past few months have been a very real time of reflection for me. With trial after trial finding it’s way to family and my own personal faith and health issues needing accounting for, the past 5 years have been anything but a walk in the park.
Looking back [...]

Introduction
At the end of each month I like to take some time and write about what was great about it. You can call this action what you want — stopping to smell the roses, appreciating the simple things in life, taking stock of the present time — regardless of what you want to call it, [...]

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird, but it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs initially. And you can’t go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. This [...]