In 1968, in the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith won the 200 meter gold. He was the first man in Olympic history to run it in record-breaking time for the medal. He is still the only track and field athlete to hold eleven world records simultaneously. I didn’t know that until I read his autobiography. …
Category Archives: Christian Devotional
“I Want”
My inner “whiner” wants to be heard this morning. “I want writing to be easier.” “I want to eat a pint of Ben and Jerry’s.” “I want the weather to cool off.” Do you have an inner “whiner”, too? Don’t we all want life to be easier than it is? As a therapist, though, I …
Structural Support
Matt Lauer of NBC’s Today show reports this morning that the I-35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis was a structural failure. Several people are dead. Families are weeping at the bedsides of critically injured spouses and children. Others wait without hope for news of the missing. A chief engineer, whose name is not yet public, signed …