Author - Duane Harder

Courage Winston Churchill said, “Courage is the most important virtue because the effective practice of all other virtues depends upon courage.” Merriam...

Ambivalence “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take...

The Champion Complainer According to the authors of the book Significa, the world’s champion complainer was a man named Ralph Charrell. Charrel received...

Sage Advice From Lucy In a classic “Peanuts” comic strip, Charlie Brown goes to Lucy for psychiatric help. He says, “What can you do when you...

Finding Hope When Life Seems Hopeless   From Parade magazine comes the story of a millionaire, Eugene Lang, who greatly changed the lives of a sixth-grade...

Mind Your Mind My face in the mirror Isn’t wrinkled or drawn. My house isn’t dirty The cobwebs are gone. My garden looks lovely And so does my lawn.I think I...

The Clock and the Compass Think about a compass and a clock two very important tools, but two very different instruments. A compass provides a sense of...

Confrontation — Caustic or Caring? We probably have all been in situations of conflict where we have felt the sting of caustic comments and perhaps been the...

Keep On Climbing “Everything worthwhile is uphill. Sadly, many people have uphill hopes and downhill habits.” ( John Maxwell) He went on to say, “Nothing that...

Honesty Without Tact “I don’t beat around the bush; I just tell it like it is!” The man who was the president of the denomination where I served, spoke to me...