Have you ever been asked, “Why did you do that?” We might fumble around with an answer…trying to come up with an excuse but at the “core” the answer is as old as time. The country song by Dierks Bentley describes a boy doing stupid things because he is enamored by a girl (verse from …
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“For As He Thinks In His Heart, So Is He.”
This Proverb is worth repeating. “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV). This week I asked my doctor, “How are you doing?” She paused and said, “Some days it’s hard.” I asked, “Oh, how is that?” She replied, “Some people are very difficult to get along with…they come in …
When My Chooser Was Not Calibrated Correctly
I was a young man in my late teens. I believed I knew it all. We called it “bullet proof”. My parents gave me a wide range of freedom to make decisions. They taught me right - wrong and they lived out those principles. My dad taught me so much. As a farmer, his ways …
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Lessons From The Farm: The Soil
Soil (dirt) is incredible. Its function in life is to grow something. Several years ago, I was to speak at a conference about organizational culture, the personality, or the heart, of an organization. Each of the participants received a small bag of dirt labeled, "Soil from my grandfather's farm, which has raised rice & soybeans …
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