Dear Friends: I wandered the streets of Pittsburgh alone one frigid President’s Day. The biggest blizzard in twenty years blended streets, parks and sidewalks into white meadows under cliffs of icy building facades. Because it was a holiday, the streets were not plowed. Only a bit of traffic scuttled crab-like across the icy intersections. Offices
Dear Friends, How we meet the challenges of our lives defines us. I recently read this aphorism — “Behind every strong person is a story that isn’t easy.” We would not know what kind of storms we can weather and what kind of battles we can survive and win, if we had not encountered hardship,
Dear Friends, Last week’s message (1/24/16) evoked the most enthusiastic responses in the seventeen plus years I’ve been writing the Word of Grace. Readers from all walks of life and parts of the country wrote or called me with affirmation of the need for truthful communication in our institutions and relationships. Readers are hungry for
Dear Friends, The genesis of this week’s message were some remarks I made to administrators of a Christian organizational client about its culture. My observations were drawn from a life-time of work of such organizations. I originally planned to send this out as the message for January 18. After completing it, I was concerned the
Dear Friends, The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. . There was a certain man . . . whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren. . . The angel of the Lord appeared to the