Growing up as a young boy in Texas “gentleness” was not on my bucket list of qualities to acquire. I grew up with Bonanza and G.I. Joes. Never once did Mr. Rogers appear on my list of “people I most want to be like.” How could he help when challenged to a fight? Which I was by Rusty in the sixth grade.
Believe Series
Examples of faithfulness catch our attention. One example of faithfulness went viral in 2013. The video “What is Love?” told the story of Bill and Glad Forward. It has been viewed almost 2 million times. The video tells the story of Bill and Glad and how they met more than 50 years ago. Like many couples they faced each other and made promises to be faithful to each other and take care of each other no matter what came to them in life.
The other day I was gathering the trash from the house and collecting it in our larger trash cans in our garage. One of them already contained a huge bag of Lay’s potato chips. It was there on top of some leaves. It was empty. This was a bit strange because we don’t buy chips very often at our house. So I asked Karen, “Do you know anything about a big bag of Lay’s potato chips?”
Over thirty years ago she was driving alone at night in a rough area of downtown Los Angeles. Catherine had exited from the freeway. As she braked at the end of the off-ramp the engine died suddenly. All the lights went out—headlights, dash lights—everything. Worse yet, the inside of the car began filling with smoke.
Barton Sparagon, MD, says impatience is killing us. E-mail, cell phones, and laptops are to blame. We bring work home. We bring work on vacations. Technology has increased the pressure to do more in the same number of hours. And our impatience has led to some serious health problems.
Barton Sparagon, MD, says impatience is killing us. E-mail, cell phones, and laptops are to blame. We bring work home. We bring work on vacations. Technology has increased the pressure to do more in the same number of hours. And our impatience has led to some serious health problems.