May
29
2018
As a basketball coach, how can you lose 75-72 to a top U.S. collegiate team in the last 15 seconds of a game and still be happy? Especially when you thought you had won 74-73 because of your team's...
May
28
2018
"Fred, why do so few people have joy?" Elegant question!
To answer, I let my mind wander, do some speculation. In today's world, we seem to base our lives on Feeling, Fact, and then Faith. I conclude emotions make horrible masters...
May
26
2018
LIVE spelled backwards comes out EVIL.
It is my belief that anything that robs us of life is evil. Sin is called missing the mark. To be alive, yet not actively live, is missing the mark.
Life is so much like...
May
25
2018
If you could ask one request and receive it from God, what would it be? A million bucks? World peace? Cure for cancer? What would it be?
King Solomon asked for wisdom, and he said, "The fear of the Lord...
May
24
2018
You are invited to join Words of Hope on a 5-day journey to joy overflowing from our cups. How good is that?
Some of the many pleasures in life are:
Cup of coffee early in the morning
Cup of hot...
May
23
2018
"Guard your heart above all else for it determines the course of your life.” Proverbs 4:23
In my view, basketball is not the only game, but the best game.
I began loving basketball at age 4 when my father took me...
May
22
2018
Suffering shows itself in many different ways: pain, distress, hardship, defeat, loss, damage, illness, injury. Often life is "worse" because of being badly affected by an experience. When the reality of suffering is yours, and even the possibility of death,...
May
21
2018
Hardly a day goes by without someone telling me of their intense suffering. Most recent examples are:
An Alaskan village friend sharing about a murder in a neighboring village.
A close friend sharing about his father's death after being...
May
19
2018
History is a valuable teacher when and if we choose to learn from it.
Twenty two days old Susie King's father, Walter Willis King, went to war. Four years later Walt returned home alive but very ill. For 76 days...
May
16
2018
Attitude is the King of EQ - emotional intelligence at NBC camps and in the Crowell Household.
As you read today’s Words of Hope, it was written in two settings.
Setting #ONE - A boardroom in Portland, Oregon.
A few seasons...
