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The Vertical Adventure: Climbing to Spiritual Heights
by Ramesh Richard Wall-climbing, literally and figuratively, drives me up a wall. This may be hard to believe, but after much convincing, I tried my hand at climbing a wall. A recreational sport marketed to the young and adventurous, wall-climbing requires sheer physical effort on one [...]
Life Rocks: Framing Your Spiritual Priorities
by Ramesh Richard A time management expert carefully placed a dozen fist-sized rocks in a wide-mouthed, glass jar and asked his audience of business professionals “Is the jar full? “Yes,” they replied. “Really?” He poured a pail full of gravel into the jar. As he shook [...]
Fly Again! Overcoming Spiritual Fatigue
by Ramesh Richard Tired and grounded hot air balloons. Visiting the National Balloon Museum, my family came upon a modest but creative display of an interesting sport covering two centuries. Initially paper bags filled with hot air were launched in the air. Subsequently a duck, a [...]
Columns In The Caverns: Truths for Daily Transformation
by Ramesh Richard My family and I recently experience a colossal hole in the earth “deep in the heart of Texas.” Looming beneath us was a magnificent cave just discovered in 1963 during the construction of a major highway. The Inner Space Caverns boast extraordinary cave [...]
Mishap or Happening: Discovering Your Part in the Eternal Drama
by Ramesh Richard “Does God play dice with the universe?” asked Mr. Einstein. He couldn’t bring himself to an unqualified “yes” to that question. My question is more personal: Does God play dice with your life? At a visceral level, life seems to be random, alternating [...]
AweZambezi! Awesome Grace!
by Ramesh Richard Awesome. My teenage kids use that adjective too often. Everything from pizza to nice weather casually qualifies as awesome. I gently as my “pre-people” to be more discriminate in its use. Basically an exclamation, the word conveys joy, celebration, and mystery. But most [...]
Christmas Rushes – Goodwill Gushes!
by Ramesh Richard Holiday sentiment is already invading our culture by late September. Fall foliage, weather change, and mail-order catalogs tell us that Christmas is right around the bend. Geese are getting fat, retailers are getting stocked, and children are practicing Jingle Bells on the family [...]
Coping with Success
by Ramesh Richard It is a temptation, an intoxicant, a trap. It is a sedative, a palliative, an addictive. It is seductive, appealing, and confusing. We don’t normally look at it that way, but what begins as an aspiration becomes an assumption, a right. What starts [...]
The Credible Monarch
by Ramesh Richard The country needs “a credible monarch,” once opined my lunch host in the United Arab Emirates. He was referring to a neighboring country where he moiled and toiled for several years. “Would you explain?” I pumped him. “The country [...]
The Silence of God in the Details of Life
by Ramesh Richard (A shortened version of this article appeared in Jan. ’95 Decision Magazine) Sandra lost her two-year-old son a few months before her husband was diagnosed as dying with cancer. She wonders, “Does God know what is happening in my life?” The family of [...]
Revisioning Global Missions
by Ramesh Richard (Adapted from an interview with the Dallas/Ft. Worth Heritage newspaper. We interact with Ramesh Richard concerning changing trends in global missions.) Q: You watch the world by way of an extensive international itinerant ministry. What are trends that impact our faith globally? [...]