Enjoyed a wonderful Greek breakfast this morning with a couple of good friends. It turns out they are from Corinth, Greece. Yes, the Corinth of the bible, i.e. Paul’s letters to the Corinthians. They are currently renovating a home in a small coastal village, a 250-year old structure with an…
I was on the radio this morning promoting “Responding to PTSD: It Takes a Village”, a seminar sponsored by the North Central Indiana Area Health Education Center. Scheduled for Thursday, May 22nd, 2014. It is a free event for the public which is also offering CME, CNE, CEUs for medical and mental…
You find love when you are focused on another. Whether it is kissing your wife as she sleeps and you slip out of bed to make breakfast for her, or it is in more severe circumstances and you sacrifice yourself so another can live, love is found when we do…
“I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.” Thomas Merton There are a million infomercials, motivational speakers, and advertisements that will tell you differently, but this is truth “I cannot…
“Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.” Thomas Merton This past weekend I met a young man who was born in Iraq and is now a freshman at the University of Michigan studying neuroscience. He is a Christian, a threatened belief in the Middle…
I’d just gotten a new camera and even though it was near the end of November we were greeted with an unusually warm and sunny day. As I was checking out my new image taker my oldest daughter, Mary Inger, put on a coat and said, “daddy, come take my…
