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Order What do clocks, calendars, personal limits and realistic expectations have in common? They are helpful tools that can bring order, regularity, and predictable patterns to our lives.  Bringing order to our lives is a good thing. It gives our lives structure, a bit of security and lets others know we are not fly by…

Working Men According to David Bahnsen, author of the book Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, millions of men are not working and neither are they seeking to work. It is not because there is a shortage of jobs, but because there is, “A collapse of will.”  Even though the federal government shut down “non-essential…

Ordinary Times The other day at the grocery store, I ran into a long time acquaintance. This acquaintance of mine used to live in my neighborhood, and my youngest son and her only son were good buddies in high school.   Whenever we see each other, of course we want to get the latest news of…

Grateful for Noiselessness Noiselessness is the absence of unwanted sounds such as the neighbor’s barking dog, the zooming of traffic as it speeds past my house or the thumping of bass guitars and drums as the band in church down the street leads the congregation in Sunday morning praise music. Noise. It is all around…