What’s in Your Hand?

You may be better equipped than your realize.

This past week I received a challenging work assignment.

Fortunately, I also read a key passage of Scripture. Early in Exodus, the Lord gives Moses a huge assignment. He balks, feeling he’s not qualified.

But the Lord responds with a diagnostic question: “What is that in your hand?” (Exodus 4:2)

As I pondered my assignment, I considered not … Continue reading

A Better Idea

Good things can happen when you ask others.

Last week I had an out-of-the-box idea for an issue of the magazine.

To confirm I was on track, I ran my thought past two people whose judgment I valued. As expected, they affirmed my idea.

But they went beyond that. They each suggested I expand my idea to something that would take considerably more work, but also … Continue reading

You Own Your Words

And other writers own theirs.

At the start of the new year, several accounts reported how many works of literature had just passed into the public domain.

After nearly a century of ownership by the authors and their heirs, such works as Agatha Christie’s The Murder on the Links, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan and the Golden Lion, and the song “Yes! We Have No Bananas” … Continue reading