by Morning Reflections | Aug 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
Today’s post is a bit different. Since we’re coming up on the first anniversary of the launching of this ministry of morning reflections, I’d love to address some of the questions I hear most often from readers.How many people are on the receiving end of the...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
There’s a reason it’s called Thank God Ledge.By the time rock climbers have scaled most of Yosemite’s massive geological feature called Half Dome, the narrow ledge near the top is a welcome relief.Before the 20th century it didn’t seem possible that anyone could go...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Pi is the world’s most famous irrational number.It can also prompt people to do some pretty irrational things.February 6, 1897, was not the brightest hour for my home state of Indiana. That was the day our House of Representatives approved Bill 246, which declared...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
It was a sign of the times. Almost 20 years ago, former Major League Baseball star Dale Murphy – one of the “high integrity” players of the 1980s – urged the creation of a patch that could be worn by participants in the annual Little League World Series....
by Morning Reflections | Aug 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Mary Ann Bird grew up feeling unlovely, unpresentable, unloved. From birth she had been afflicted with a variety of disfiguring features. She recounts her feelings – and the moment in which everything changed – in her book The Whisper Test: I grew up...
