The 3 Word Journal

Our family loves basketball. We try to be generally informed and follow the games at all levels. During a tight playoff series involving my favorite professional team, I was disappointed to be involved in taking care of a household chore during a critical point in the game. Seeing that Nichelle, our eight- year-old daughter, was [...]

 When I was in the ninth grade, I wanted badly to be a basketball team. I didn’t make the school team but our church had a team that all were welcome on. Almost every day after school, I walked down to an outdoor basketball goal that was placed at the end of a cement slab [...]

I met Matt at a youth program for high school students in Michigan. He introduced himself after one of my presentations. I was immediately impressed with him. He was a nice looking boy but I was a little disappointed, when he took off the hat he was wearing to expose his shaved head. My first [...]

 While in college I took a youth leadership class from a very popular professor named Rulon Skinner. One day he brought in a beautiful cake and set it on the desk in front of the class. I think that most of us were hoping we’d get a piece of that the cake. That day we [...]

While working for a company that sold business products, I received a call from one of my customers who was furious with our service department. She informed me that she had called for service on a copy machine on two different occasions and that no one ever came out. Their work had backed up because [...]

When my six-year-old cousin Casey was playing her first year of girls softball she got a hit and ended up on third base. When the next batter came up and hit the ball, Casey made no effort to run toward home plate. She just stood on base, as if nothing had happened. Seeing this, the [...]