Archive for the ‘Gratitude’ Category

When You’re Sixty!

Print or EmailTheDiscipleMD A RE-POST FROM A FEW YEARS AGO (OBVIOUSLY) Today, May 12th,  is the day “I lived a good life.” Today I turn sixty years old. The big one! If I had passed on yesterday I would have still been fifty-nine and my passing would have been tragic. After all, when you die […]

Is Life Like “Leaves In The Wind?”

Print or EmailTheDiscipleMD Years ago, we lived in a house in the woods. The trees gave wonderful shade in the summer, which we enjoyed. But the fall was a different thing. Leaves would fall continuously for what seemed like months and needed to be raked often. I learned that, on windy days, you don’t rake […]

He Said: “You Are A Very Blessed Man!”

Print or EmailTheDiscipleMD Many years ago, one of my clients surveyed my office and spied the pencil drawing of my five children. He got up and examined it. He said they looked like me. He asked me about them, and I gave him a quick rundown of their lives. He looked at me and said, […]

Another Look At His ‘Grace’

Print or EmailTheDiscipleMD I first remember seeing it on the kitchen wall of my parents’ farmhouse in the early eighties. I don’t know what it was about that particular painting that captured my attention. Perhaps it was the discouraged look on the old man’s face. His white head bowed down in disappointment at the bowl […]

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