A number of years ago a friend and I were in his small boat on the Isle of Wight Bay at Ocean City, Maryland, when the boat’s engine sputtered and quit working just as a storm rolled across the waters. There we were, stranded on the water as the rain and wind began to make …
I weigh over 200 lbs. I have minimal survival skills. I tend to wander away. I cannot find my way home when I get lost. I cannot get up when I fall down. I need a shepherd. I am a sheep. You and I, we are no different than sheep. A shepherd will do anything …
Picture yourself walking alone on a sidewalk illuminated by pathway lights. The moon shines brightly. The night air is calm. The chirping of the crickets brings a sense of peace. You enjoy this quiet and serene walk and are in no hurry to go inside. In fact, you might just walk around the block a …
During my childhood I was allergic to honeybees and yellow jackets. At age eleven I was playing in a neighbor’s yard when I inadvertently stepped on a nest of yellow jackets that had built their colony in the ground. I was stung over fifty times and spent several days in the hospital. For the next …
How do you respond when someone comes to you with a better way, at least better way according to them? Do you get defensive and think to yourself “Who made you the expert?” or do you listen to their advice? Admittedly, there are a lot of armchair quarterbacks who always seem to know the best …
Have you ever felt alone and isolated? Invisible? Forgotten? It is as if you are walking alone on a quiet and empty beach. The vastness of the ocean makes you feel very small, very insignificant in the grand scheme of things. The only living creatures in sight are the dolphins swimming close to the shoreline, …