I’m sharing the poem, “Good Timber,” with you this morning. It was written by Douglas Malloch in 1910 and has become a poem of encouragement for going through difficulties. I share it with my sons every few years, as they grow in life against the inevitable obstacles they face. Good Timber by Douglas Malloch The […]

EGO, RESENTMENT, AND OUR TROUBLES LBJ once told Bill Moyers, reflecting on racial resentment, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” Note that historians agree

People trust. It’s both instinctual and learned. At the moment we are born, trust is not optional. Defenseless, we are pulled from the warm and safe confines of our mother’s womb and into a new world that immediately works to reassure us–swaddled, held, fed, soothed, made to feel safe. The new environment feels like the

Awaken to the Hope He Had. In her January 18, 2026 Letters from an American, the brilliant Heather Cox Richardson (one of my role models) wrote that Dr. King said that he “felt blessed to live in an era when people had finally woken up and were working together for freedom and economic justice.” Woken