This true story appears in my book Fully Alive and has been an inspiration to me for years. Dave Veerman, a vice president with The Livingstone Corporation in Chicago, once lived in Covington, Louisiana. He’d been training for a marathon run across the world’s longest bridge over water, a twenty-four-mile structure spanning Lake Pontchartrain. Dave thought he was in good …
Hey! WAKE UP! It’s Lighten up Monday! My daughter was about three when she tottered up to me, removed the pacifier from her mouth, and asked, “Does Jesus bite?” Wow! I know a lot of adults who are still asking that question. I pulled her up on my lap and told her that Jesus NEVER bites. Sometimes the people who …
The following post was written several years ago from the perspective of one who has not always made the best decisions in life. I wonder who that could be?? But, I am learning. Since we are still early into the New Year of 2014, I re-wrote this to share four principles that help me make better decisions.
I did this video on a freezing sunny day around Christmas. It was designed to encourage you to keep moving in 2014 and enjoy this year fully alive. That is my prayer for you this year. That you will be everything you were created to be. The first step toward that goal is to eliminate all excuses and move. [youtube …
It’s MONDAY! After a freezing week across the nation it is finally time to lighten up and warm up! There are two clips in today’s post. The first clip was filmed in about 1990 in front of 11,000 people and the second was filmed about 21 years later and became part of a motion picture titled Fully Alive. They are …