For Wilshire Baptist Church
It’s one of my favorite and most vivid early memories: The handlebars quit gyrating, the front wheel quit wobbling, and I felt the glorious magic of perfect balance on a bicycle. Continue reading “Perfect Balance”
Playing Catch-up
For Wilshire Baptist Church
“I spent my 30s fixing the mistakes I made in my 20s, and my 40s doing what I should have done in my 30s.”
It was a throwaway line for laughs by Steve Harvey on a rerun of Family Feud, but I found it oddly profound and intensely realistic. Who among us is doing exactly what we thought we’d be doing? Who is playing catch-up on their hopes and dreams? Continue reading “Playing Catch-up”
Fearless
For Wilshire Baptist Church
Something extraordinary happened early Saturday morning that didn’t get any attention but left me breathless reading about it two days later: While we were getting out of bed, drinking coffee, checking email and planning our day, a 31-year-old rock climber named Alex Honnold completed the first free-solo climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Translation: he climbed the 3,000-foot-tall granite monolith alone and without any ropes or safety gear of any kind. He did it in just under four hours. Continue reading “Fearless”