August 15, 2010
In response to some of your comments after speaking in church on Sunday (8/15), we thought we would post some entries from a devotional book we cowrote in the Fall of 2009. This first one highlights a few more examples from Sheryl’s perspective on words she has heard that were not altogether “helpful” at the time.
“Your father’s surgeon is only average in her surgical skills,” said my highly knowledgeable, and extremely accomplished medical friend to me as my father was under that average surgeon’s knife. My thoughts about her words: How’s that helpful?
“Aunt Sheryl, how’s China? Are Grandmom…
August 12, 2010
Recently my husband astounded me with this statement – “I just want you to be happy!” Now that’s not really a stunning admission – we all want the people we love to be “happy”, but what did he mean? His idea of happy or my idea of happy? Did we even have the same concept of happy?
There’s certainly a growing interest in happiness lately. In the 90’s for every 100 articles written about sadness, only one was written about being or staying happy. Today there are entire books devoted to the subject. Sheryl and I just finished reading “The…
August 5, 2010
Lost in translation?
Cammy and I just returned from Europe where we had the opportunity to teach and encourage teachers from literally around the world. Fortunately for us, we didn’t need a translator as all the “students” spoke and understood English.
However, our home away from home was located in the Southwest corner of Germany, in the Black Forest where the people in the beautiful village, while fairly fluent in English, spoke many languages—German, Italian, Spanish, French, and Chinese. Everyday we heard diverse languages and dialects as we journeyed not…
