Once when my youngest son was just beginning to toddle around the house, I was tasked with the job of watching him for the afternoon. I was in seminary at the time and it was rather difficult to be getting the sleep I needed while balancing work, school, and family. I decided to lay down on the sofa with my son on my chest hoping we would both be able to catch some much needed z’s; however, only one of…
Five hundred years ago, Michel de Montaigne said: “My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.” According to Don Joseph Goewey, “Now there’s a study that proves it. This study looked into how many of our imagined calamities never materialize. In this study, subjects were asked to write down their worries over an extended period of time and then identify which of their imagined misfortunes did not actually happen. Lo and behold, it turns out…
In 2011 the Chicago Cubs hired Theo Epstein to be their president of baseball operations. He came from Boston having led that franchise to two World Series championships and ending what had been the third longest championship drought in Major League Baseball. The Cubs ownership gave Epstein complete control of every baseball decision, and he along with his team proceeded in making the Cubs horrible. In 2012, 2013, and 2014 he traded several of the best most loved players from the…