Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise
Have you ever heard the saying, “Lord willing and the creek don’t rise?” It sounds like a line out of a country song . . . a line we throw out casually when someone asks…
From a Crutch to the Cross
As men, we so often walk around leaning on a crutch, an outward sign of our broken inward condition, that it can become our identity if left unaddressed. In my early teens, I lost my…
The Perfect Swing
In his book, The Boys of Summer, which chronicled the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950’s, Roger Kahn describes the swing of George “Shotgun” Shuba, a bench player, as being as “so compact that it appeared…
Mentoring Begins One Conversation at a Time
It was February 2002. Imagine being asked . . . to write your obituary . . . send it to a total stranger . . . Then spend a year of your life meeting once a month…
