Nov 25, 2015 | Beauty, character, Contentment, Family, friendship, Marriage, Relationships, Uncategorized
The Opalewski family has a tradition every year at Thanksgiving breakfast: we go around the table, and each person shares what they’re thankful for this past year. (I know… not too original.) I look forward to this tradition every year, because there are always some...
Oct 1, 2015 | Calling, Career, character, Contentment, Family, friendship, Marriage, Productivity, Relationships, Rest, Stress, Uncategorized, Work
News broke this week that 11 million Volkswagen vehicles worldwide were fitted with the software designed to trick emissions testing equipment. A few months ago during the summer, NFL fans were inundated with Deflate-gate—a controversy over the illegal deflation of...
Sep 18, 2015 | Contentment, Depression, Family, Forgiveness, friendship, Relationships, Rest, Stress, Work
This past weekend Laura and I served a church in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. For those of you who are not Michiganders, our state’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas are connected by the 5-mile long Mackinac Bridge. If you don’t like bridges, you really wouldn’t like...
May 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
Last week I posted the following question on Twitter and FB: “At what point does passion degrade into an adrenaline addiction?” Here is a sampling of the responses I received: “An indicator may be when we are unwilling to turn it off for necessary, non-adrenaline...
Nov 13, 2014 | Contentment
Gratitude and contentment are not natural responses for most of us humanoids. Something in our psyche seems to be wired to default to complaining and negativity. Even the Apostle Paul said: “I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.” And a...
