Sometimes words spin around in my head and even spill out of my mouth before others have finished speaking. When I do that, I’m barely listening to them. It feels almost like I’m in a competition to get my thoughts out quickly to make…
Award-winning journalist John Leland spent a year visiting with six culturally diverse seniors, all eighty-five and older. In his book Happiness Is A Choice You Make, he weaves together the stories and lessons he learned from them about aging with grace and joy. The lessons…
The Caucasus Mountains in Georgia Racism, the belief that one race is superior to another, is a big and weighty topic. I don’t begin to think that I can do it justice in one short blog. But I want to address just one form of racism…
My parents in 1951 In 1951, my parents Dr. John and Clara Schmidt founded and ran a leprosy station in Paraguay, South America. After 20 years of devoted service to ease the suffering of cast out untouchables, they were asked to leave. They’re gone now….
As a Christian, I grew up with the certain knowledge that salvation from hell could only come through believing in Jesus Christ as my savior. This is nothing unusual. Most of the world’s religions have some concept of heaven and hell and what it…