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What We Can Learn from 9/12?

The morning of 9/12 was marked by a deep sorrow.  So many innocent lives had been lost on 9/11, the day before.  But for many that day also marked another tragedy.  It was a day millions of people became paralyzed………. by fear. The most outward demonstration of this fear was the silence in the skies.  All flights in the United …

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Three Life Principles that Lead to Living Fully Alive

Many years ago, in a galaxy far far away, there was a television commercial promoting beer.  The commercial featured several young people precariously perched on a catamaran sailing through the water.  As spray hit the lens of the camera, a dramatic voice announced, “You only go around once! Reach for all the gusto you can get.”  Then the ad encouraged …

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How do You get over a Twelve Thousand Foot Ridge?

My friend Danny de armas and I had just hiked three miles in the mountains of Colorado. Now we stood staring up almost a mile at the 12,900 foot ridge we had to to cross to make it back to base camp. We had been on our feet almost all day.  It seemed that with each foot we gained in …

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The Key You Can’t Be Without!

Last week I had the privilege of speaking to a group of bright, enthusiastic students attending the 2011 speech and debate camp run by Training Minds Ministry.  At the end of my presentation the founder of this group, Chris Jeub, asked this question, “If there is limited time to teach children the essentials of Math, Science, History, Literature etc, then …