A Man’s Reach Should Exceed His Grasp

Chicago.  A week before Christmas, some years ago.  It is cold!  Snow on the streets and sidewalks.  And I heard the voice of God say to me:  “Help him!”  I looked, there was no one there.  Then I heard the Voice again, and I looked again and there, lying in the middle of Clark St. was an elderly man, unable to rise, cars driving around him.  So I acted, I helped, and the act became a focus point of my thoughts the remainder of that night and the next day.  Had I done enough?  What else should I have done? What happened to the man? Continue reading

How Do You Like the New Year?

How do you like the new year so far? And those resolutions…what happened to those? Keeping them? Ah, good. Really? Well sort of. Okay.

Frankly, there are times when I would like a do-over! You know, start this year over, get it started right without all this “stuff”. You know the “stuff” I mean. Things not going exactly the way you planned, or perhaps your cold morphed into something that has lasted too long. Or maybe car trouble, kid trouble, trouble at work, trouble with your computer or other gadgets. You name it, things just didn’t go the way you planned it. Do you know what that’s called? LIFE! Continue reading