I suspect that many of us prefer to live in a world where the majority of others agrees with us on significant matters. Unless you're unusually driven by conflict and controversy, you have a strong affinity for those who are a lot like you. That's understandable. It's a fact of basic human nature even if …
Category: Values
Leap Year Lesson #251: Value is Relative
One of the fun things I'm doing during my time off from work this week is visiting some pizza places I've never been to before. Sunday afternoon my wife and I went to Mellow Mushroom Pizza in St. Matthews, KY. It was tasty and had a great atmosphere, but was too pricey to suit us, …
Leap Year Lesson #141: Look Where Your Mind Wanders To Find Your Heart
In an earlier post, I commented on how we sometimes need to act our way into the right feelings. Today's lesson is similar in that it deals with a back door way of discovering something about ourselves. If given proper warning, most of us would likely answer questions about what we value most with respectable, …
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Leap Year Lesson #123: You’d Better Go Home Again
In his novel You Can't Go Home Again, Thomas Wolfe wrote: "You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ... back home to places in the country, back home to the old forms and systems of things …
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Leap Year Lesson #105: Speak Your Convictions Regardless of Opposition
I heard a man speak tonight about some of the difficult situations he faced growing up in another country. He discussed his family's Christian faith amidst overwhelming opposition. One impressive fact: of the 5,000 students in his high school, he was the only one who was Christian. Nearly everyone else was Hindu. Teenage years are …
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