When Diana Nyad was 30, she did something that no other person had ever done. She set the distance record for nonstop swimming without a wetsuit. That record still stands today, thirty-two years later. I was thirteen at the time, and remember watching Ms. Nyad on TV. I didn’t linger in front of the set, [...]

I’m not sure why God insists on using people to do His will on the earth. People are selfish, wasteful, and sinful. But He forgives us, seventy times seven fashion, if we come to Him in contrition and ask. People are weak and imperfect. But He just puts us back on that holy potter’s wheel [...]