WEEKLY DEVOS

This past Sunday, while speaking about the importance of forgiving those who have hurt us, I admitted that I often still feel hurt or discomfort when I’m around people I thought I had forgiven. My unscripted but honest comment struck a nerve. Many of you asked, “If...

In the 1985 movie The Purple Rose of Cairo, Cecilia is a New Jersey waitress during the Depression searching for an escape from her dreary life.  She becomes obsessed with a movie of the same name, sitting through it so many times she can repeat every word. The star...

I just returned from a huge custom car show in Detroit. You might ask, “Why would grown men get up at 5:00 AM on a Saturday, drive four hours through a snow storm, pay twenty bucks to get into a crowded exhibition hall, walk five miles of show floor, then pile back...

I just got a new laptop. As I was moving old documents to the new computer, I stumbled onto this story from a frazzled mom and realized it was too good to keep hidden in my cyber-vault. Years ago I “copied & pasted” this story, failing to credit the original...

In the 1994 comedy Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd (Jim Carrey) develops an irrepressible crush on Mary (Lauren Holly), a beautiful and sophisticated girl who is hopelessly out of his league. Lloyd is an incurable romantic… he’s also a dimwitted optimist. Here’s Lloyd asking...

“Hey, Ron,” my friend asked, “do you know what a Sunbeam Alpine looks like?” Did I ever! My love for cars has been the tail that wags the dog during many seasons of my life. When Marilyn and I simplified, sold our house and downsized, I made a spiritual and financial...