Thinking about our epitaph can help us not to live life by accident.  But there’s also a danger in endeavoring to write it ourselves—i.e., the presumption that we decide how we will be remembered. Thomas Jefferson is a case in point.  He...

I don’t mean to be morbid, but have you ever thought about what you’d want written on your headstone when you’re buried? It’s actually a rather revealing exercise, to try and come up with the few words you’d want to...

We’ve talked quite a bit about our own opinions this week…but what about the opinions of others? Aesop’s fable of the Miller, his son and the Donkey offers a warning: “An old Miller and his Son were on their way...

We’ve been considering opinions this week – what it means to have one, how we should think about our own opinions, and so forth. “But,” you may ask, “why does any of this matter?  What difference does it make if...

Young CS Lewis made the mistake of forming an opinion without any actual thought or knowledge behind it.  Bu he’s not alone.   We all have a tendency to form opinions prematurely based on little more than our feelings or...

Welcome back. Whether you traveled, or stayed home, I hope you all had a restful and restorative break. Last week, our family spent time in a small town in Florida, called Rosemary Beach. It is in some ways a quaint...

When’s the last time you washed someone’s feet for them?  Weird question, right?  And kind of gross… To be fair, we don’t live in a culture or time where that kind of thing happens.  We have running water and wash...