If you are going to do some heavy lifting today, you better have a spotter.
For a brief spell, I pumped iron. Early in the morning--three days a week--I hit the gym with my son, Paul. It was heave, grimace, grunt, and sweat all in the name of physical fitness.
Here's an experiment for you. Type the word "beauty" in your browser. Then click on the images tag. Voilà . . . this is what our culture thinks about beauty: it is external, skin deep, and that which tantalizes the senses.
I am just finishing the book, The Power of Communication by Helio Fred Garcia. Garcia has opened my eyes to the power of metaphor. A metaphor is a "word that stands in for something much broader than its literal meaning."
President John F. Kennedy stood before a joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961 and made the announcement that would change the world: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
“We must all inevitably suffer from one of two pains: either the pain of discipline or the pain of regret!” - Jim Rohn
"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." - John 15:5 ESV
