February 2015
Three Tips on Assisting a Blind Person
In the twenty years I’ve lived in total darkness, I’ve experienced life in the cities and villages of three West African countries (Mali, Ivory Coast and my mission home—Guinea), several European countries (Primarily Switzerland, but also Germany, France and Holland), spent time on a moshave in Israel near Jerusalem, and even co-led a commando-style mission […]
Three Tips When Encountering a Blind Person
Of the more than 6.2 million people over the age of sixteen in America who are visually disabled, only about two percent have no light perception at all. Since I’m one of those categorized as totally blind, it doesn’t really matter to me that this number can vary with smaller study groups. To me blind […]
The Real Grasshoppers
How easy it is to look at the giants before us, and in our fear of the challenge ahead, see only our weakness. Our trembling knees send a clear message to the brain: You know you can’t do this, and so does everyone else; quit before you get hurt. About six months after I totally […]
Lent for Protestants 101
“What are you giving up for Lent?” may be asked of you tomorrow, Ash Wednesday. If you’re not a practicing Roman Catholic, you may think the question irrelevant; or you mightn’t have a clue what the questioner is asking. Lent? Ash Wednesday? If the terms are familiar to you, but your answer might be, “I’m […]
Encouragement: The Antidote to Quitting
“Encourage one another daily,” the writer of Hebrews 3:13 exhorts us. How few words are needed to affect change in the life of another. Last week our pastor shared two stories of his experiences running marathons. In the first, his weary body screamed for him to quit as he started up that last killer hill. […]