Faith & Life Inspirational Message

If you are reading this, you too have survived last year and now are living in a new year!   If you participate in the media in any form, from reading newspapers to watching tv, you have become aware of a flood of statistics.   There are countless stories about last year.   I have become aware of the ten most brilliant-this and the ten dumbest-that.   As one who watches sports, I have watched the most amazing-this and the most disappointing-that.   Already coaches are losing jobs because of their involvement in some kind of “disappointing-that.”   As I write this, two professional football coaches have been fired.   I can’t imagine what they will do without their million dollar salaries!   As an assistant coach next year, they may have to scrape by with half that! The other annual fascination of mine as last year gives way to a new year is the making of resolutions.   Two staples of the new year are greeting everyone you meet with the p...

I was driving along yesterday and spied a bumper sticker on the car in front of me.   I had never seen that sticker.   I have always liked bumper stickers.   They have been around for a long time.   I see bumper stickers as part of American cultural media.   The sticker communicates just as much as a tv advertisement or radio commercial.   Sometimes the sticker is literally advertising some business.   Others are humorous pieces and even others cover a range of communication options.             The sticker on the car in front of me was round.   At the top in fairly bold numbers I read 13.1.   Since I am a runner, I knew exactly what that meant.   It “told” me that someone in that car had run a half-marathon.   A half-marathon is 13.1 miles.   I have run quite a few half-marathons in my life---maybe 50 of them.   Had the sticker said 26.2, I would know there was ...