by Morning Reflections | May 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereLike a lot of people, Cliff Edwards wanted to hit the big time.Unlike most people, he actually succeeded. In 1909, Edwards dropped out of school in Hannibal, Missouri – he was 14 years old at the time –...
by Morning Reflections | May 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereHow did hurricanes get their names?It’s a long and interesting story.As Eric Jay Dolin reports in his book A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes, there were no standard naming...
by Morning Reflections | May 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereInvictus is one of history’s most enduring expressions of self-reliance.It came from the pen of William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), a highly regarded poet and literary critic during Britain’s Victorian...
by Morning Reflections | May 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here“I will tell you my secret: I have doubts.”Those are the opening words of John Ortberg’s 2008 book Faith and Doubt.As a general rule, we applaud individuals for such transparency. A confession of doubt...
by Morning Reflections | May 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereIn his role as a feature writer for an outdoor magazine, Mark Adams writes about great adventures.Until a decade ago, however, he had never experienced one firsthand.All that changed when Adams hired a...
