Every person’s journey in life is unique but challenges can be similar. How does someone become wise and experienced? Education, for sure, living long enough to reflect back, and by doing. But, also by making bad decisions and then by learning from those bad decisions. It has been said that a smart person learns from the mistakes of others. A less intelligent person learns by making the mistakes on their own! Do you know which is more painful? That’s right… learning from our own stupid mistakes! When humans stop listening we stop learning. The consequences are staggering when we learn only through bad decisions. This blog is intended to provide you with a new thought, a new insight, a new outlook to help you through life!
Jim’s values are a result of his beliefs. Understanding that it takes much more faith to believe that everything came from “nothing” than to believe that there is a Higher Power that created life and all that goes with it, Jim’s experiences come shining through a God-centered filter. Jim is a retired pastor, a former missionary and a semi-retired eye doctor (optometric physician). He “was” an avid athlete and competitor. Good at just about everything but not great at any one sport, he learned to focus and find what is most important in any given sport, as well as, life itself. That means he is a “bottom-line” thinker. He has a wife of fifty-three years, two adult children, one “daughter in love” and three amazing grandsons. His personal experiences in eye care, business, shepherding people, competition, family and parenting give him a unique perspective that might help someone (or many someones) who are searching for answers.
I kind of wanted to write a book, but not really. I knew how much time, effort, and knowledge that was required and I’m not that “into it” at this point in my life. So, like so many other aspiring uninspired people, I decided to do a blog! Now, you have to understand, I have no experience in blogging, at least not much. I did write a few lines when I pastored a church with the help of my younger, techie staff. Other than that, this venture is more like an adventure!
I took a couple of courses in my undergraduate college career but not enough to make me a “writer.” Also, I’ve lived a pretty full life and time seemed to do what it does… time marches on! Now, I’m mostly retired and have a bit more time available for this adventure and I sense a desire to do something important for my family and their families to come. I want to leave something behind that my children, grandchildren, and their grandchildren (and so forth) to help them become really good people. Good for their world and for their God… my God. Productive and dependable people. Kind and compassionate people. People of faith.
Psalm 19:14 “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord my Strength and my Redeemer.” There is one particular part of our body that has the greatest potential for producing good, but also for producing bad (evil). Maybe you know already what it is. …
I never really wanted to write a book, so I thought blogging might be the thing. I understood that providing interesting content, a storyline, characters and a plot took more than just a casual approach and I was not very interested in learning how to “become a writer.” I took a couple of college courses…
Matthew 7:24,25 Jesus said, “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock.” Please read again the…
Chasing Wisdom 