by marshal | Feb 5, 2009 | Lessons Learned, Priorities
For six years I was a morning newspaper delivery boy. During those quiet, lonely, early morning hours, I often day dreamed about my future. I imagined playing baseball in the major leagues or basketball at a Division l college. Some of my dreams never came true. Also...
by marshal | Jan 15, 2009 | Lessons Learned, Priorities
During the Christmas holidays I received with gratitude many cards wishing me prosperity and peace for the New Year. Not one of the cards issued any warning such as, “Bob, there is trouble ahead for you in 2009” – unlikely words to be found in a...
by marshal | Dec 11, 2008 | Lessons Learned, Priorities
God is with us. Yet I so easily fail to recognize Him. I am distracted by the noise of the world's problems, blinded by the spectacular that I long for and engrossed in the mundane that is so much a part of my life. I hear people complaining that society has...
by marshal | Nov 20, 2008 | Lessons Learned, Priorities, Stewardship
Everyday I am bombarded with too much information. Some is helpful to know – the correct antibiotic to treat pneumonia. Some isn't worth knowing – the kind of soap Michael Jordon uses. If you know facts such as that you need to get a life. Some...
by marshal | Nov 13, 2008 | Integrity, Lessons Learned, Priorities, Stewardship, Truth
My job on Monday night is to take out the trash which, of course, includes separating it into piles of paper, glass and plastic. When I took out the trash as a young boy trash was trash – everything was useless. We have now learned that recycled trash has value....
by marshal | Oct 9, 2008 | Lessons Learned, Priorities
Until the mid-1970’s graduates at most medical schools in the United States recited the Hippocratic Oath. In fact, I was in the last graduating class at my medical school to take this pledge. One of the tenets was Transcendence – the recognition of the...
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