What we had done was to seek out, in our chosen home community, those things that were the most meaningful to us. We realized that it is all too easy to ignore the natural beauty and simple pleasure right around us and to complain instead about dull surroundings or...
At your funeral or at your 90th birthday they're not going to say, "I am so grateful to him or her because he/she was happy." Living lovingly toward others will definitely have moments of happiness, but one might do well to understand that it is not the happy moments...
If you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself. Something to repair tears in your community. Something to make life a little better for people less fortunate than you. That's what I think a meaningful life is--living not for oneself, but...
When we take the time to reflect on our life immediately before us, the more meaningful and beautiful It becomes.
The transformative power of love is the foundation for all meaningful social change.
If we lose a generation of young people in the church, it won't be because we didn't entertain them. It will be because we didn't dare them to do something meaningful with the Gospel in light of the world we live in.
To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you. That's what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one's community.
Look, the world loves us when we are good, better, best, but this is the time when you want to stop feeling guilty that you are not living your best life, now. We’re not always doing mountaintop yoga. I used to have my own delusion of living my own best life...
There we'll all be, gathered around the banquet table, not just the perfect people but also the other 99.9 percent of humanity. The prodigal son and his hard-partying buddies, the joyful father; the oldest son, and his responsible friends too, they're all there along...
Our culture insists in looking for things we can measure, signs of a life well lived through metrics like health, strength, and success, but maybe we, too, should start listening for new vital signs; beds surrounded by loved ones, legacies of kindness and generosity,...