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By Bill A. Gaspard, Certified Christian Life Coach and Biblical Counselor One evening, Dwight Moody noticed a man leaning against a lamppost and asked him if he was a Christian. The man snorted back, “Mind your own business!” Moody responded, “I’m sorry if I’ve offended you, but this is my business.” Is sharing your...

It is interesting that when we are young, we feel invincible, indestructible. The twilight years of our lives, the ending years, days and hours of our lives are so distant that we simply don't think about them, don't focus on them. And maybe that is as it should be. By setting those issues and concerns aside, the young can concentrate on the here and now - facing challenges, overcoming them,...

The other day was another day to walk the beach. Fall is trying to move summer out of the way but not with much success. After a few days of cool weather, or at least cool for us, summer has made it clear it has no intentions of being pushed off the stage quite yet. But be that as it may, it was a pleasant day to walk the beach. (Readers' note: Subsequent to writing this, winter moved in;...

Well, It has finally happened. I have become unbalanced. Some folks that know me (or think they do) may say that has been true for some time. But now I practice an unbalanced life and it's not a bad thing. In fact; it is not a bad thing at all. Let me explain. I really have not gone off the deep end but have been practicing the 80/20 rule. Simply put, the 80/20 rule states that the relationship...

I ask the reader’s forgiveness for posting two entries in my blog in one day. There is purpose to it however. In recently posted blog (Being Bolder and Growing), the writer talked about feeling she was in the wrong place by posting on Growing Bolder. That reminded me of something I wrote back in September 2007. It seems kind’a appropriate. Here it is: Things seem to not go well when we...

There are great movies, and there are great fictional books. Probably one factor that defines them as great is that they hold our interest from the opening scene or first few pages. The second is we can't wait to get to the final scenes or last pages to see how they turn out. Of course, some don't want to wait to see how the story ends and don't have to wait. If it's a movie, there are a few...

(Note to readers: I am fully aware the purpose of Growing Bolder – as you move along in life, get out there and enjoy it. However, in spite of that, not everyone is going to jump out of a plane or go snorkeling in some exotic bay. For many getting it’s a matter of adjusting to a new phase in life. Here is one senior’s take on it.) So you are going along, busily living life, enjoying...

To the reader: This musing was originally posted on January 5, 2010. In the December 2009 issue of Popular Science there was an article about Stephen Wolfram who, along with his team, is developing the mother of all search engines. As opposed to giving you links based on your query, it attempts to analyze your query and give you the answer you were seeking. It has ten trillion pieces of data...

In science, there is something called Schrödinger's cat. It is often described as a paradox although it really is a thought experiment (no laboratory needed, just an active mind). This thought experiment, as best as this feeble mind can understand, explored one of the features of quantum mechanics which says, among other things, that everything exists in multiple states or infinite possibilities...

A while back, an ambulance in Ohio headed to a hospital was broadsided at an intersection. The patients in the ambulance were being treated for injuries from an earlier car wreck when their ambulance was struck. In that second accident, the impact and subsequent fire killed three emergency medical technicians and two patients; a fourth medical technician and the driver of the other vehicle were...