This past week, my family took our best-ever family getaway. We went to a quaint lakeside camp nestled in the Laurel Highlands in western Pennsylvania. Run by the staff of Summer’s Best Two Weeks (SB2W), this 3-day 2-night family camp, appropriately named Summer’s Best Two Nights (SB2N), gave us a personalized, intimate, relationship-building experience. SB2W’sContinue reading “I’m Third”
Category Archives: Self-improvement
No Credit, No Limit
Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States of America, once said, “There is no limit to the amount of good you can do, if you don’t care who gets the credit.” Just imagine what your family, your company, or your community could accomplish if everyone put ego aside and focused on the importantContinue reading “No Credit, No Limit”
Your Career is a Ministry When …
Your career is a ministry when … You view what you do as serving others in God’s name. You help others without the expectation of getting anything in return. You are not driven by the need to receive credit, applause or attention. You are driven by love for God. Your motives are pure because youContinue reading “Your Career is a Ministry When …”
Our Racist Lens
Racism is not binary. It’s not something you wholly are or aren’t. It’s more like a sliding scale. Every human is racist to some degree, and we view the world through our racist lens. The clearer the lens, the less racist we are. The more distorted the lens, the more we show prejudice, discrimination, orContinue reading “Our Racist Lens”
Love God Love People
My maternal grandfather, Michael Essey Hanna, immigrated from Damascus, Syria. I was the last grandchild he kissed, but I don’t remember him. He died of a heart attack at age 71 when I was just two months old. What I wouldn’t give to have a conversation with him. Among others, I have these questions: WhatContinue reading “Love God Love People”
Truth Trumps Power
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Excerpt from The United States Declaration of Independence What makes that statement beautiful and purposeful is the humility it tookContinue reading “Truth Trumps Power”
The People We Pass By
Our days are filled with passing by other people. Whether it’s on foot or by car, I can’t help but to wonder more and more about the story of those that enter and exit my field of vision. You see, I’m intentionally trying to master my situational awareness, especially as it pertains to other humanContinue reading “The People We Pass By”
Peri “wrinkle”
Periwrinkle Rudy’s Blue Angel is his AKC full name. “Peri” for short. He came into our family 9 years ago this week. He was named after his older brother, a fawn Shar-Pei named Rudy. Peri and Rudy never met because Rudy died 7 years prior. Nonetheless in 2011, it was time to get another Shar-Pei,Continue reading “Peri “wrinkle””
Who Will I Thank and Serve Today?
I’m about to say something counter-cultural. Humans are not inherently good. We enter this world with a natural tendency to be selfish and self-centered. We don’t want to be subordinate to anyone else, and we don’t like the feeling of submission. We don’t want to serve others and ultimately desire final authority over ourselves. WeContinue reading “Who Will I Thank and Serve Today?”
Underestimated
How many people set a goal to be underestimated? In today’s culture, evidently not too many. To be underestimated means to be smaller or less important than you actually are. On the contrary, it seems like the “unsilent majority” are consumed by being bigger, louder and more important than they are. Being underestimated is notContinue reading “Underestimated”
