8/8/19 By Chad Denke Where would the world be if everybody loved unconditionally? One thing I know for sure is that more people would be alive and more people would need homes. Which is good for me. What is love, though? Is it what we see on TV? Is it what we feel in our heart? If you accept love as a whole it’s simply accepting people for whom they are. Even if they irritate the hell out of you, wronged you or don’t see eye to eye with you. It’s a
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A Speck In time As I get older I realize that’s all I am in the cycle of time. Age seems to bring that on. So does fear of losing your life. Recently I have been having some health issues for over a month. I’ve been light-headed, my equilibrium was off, I was low on
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That’s the first mistake rookies make in golf. Which I found out from Colestones golf coach Scott on Friday. I’ve played a whopping three times in my life. The last being ten years ago for my wedding.  Ya, I’m no expert. That’s why when the coach asked at the beginning if I wanted tips I said “yes.” I’m never too prideful to learn. Which was good because I was making plenty of mistakes. The first being trying to hit the ball. Which seems logical to me. What seems right isn’t always the right answer, though. Instead, coach Scott explained that I needed to work on my swing. Do that correctly,
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It’s a great mystery of how mega ancient structures were built in the past. Lost in the sands of time the art was. The school of thought for a long time was that these ancient civilizations like the Incas were primitive and not capable of building megacities. But with a recent technology called lidar, the
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One thing about destinations is that when you get to them they end. The process and all the work that it takes to get there is over. At times that can be exhilarating. But then what comes after? For some that is a void. I heard Deion Sanders once say after he had won the Super Bowl “That’s it.” His whole life he had been driving to meet this one goal and once he finally got there he felt empty. All that work to get there and he had no plan for anything after. Everything in his life hung on that one goal. That’s why it’s important to make sure how you look at destinations.  It’s been a year and four months since I decided to start writing weekly to you
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When I was a kid, I always thought the war was glorious. I spent countless hours imagining I was fighting the enemy.  I had the classic green army man set with the yellow Japanese to fight on the other side. It was all so simple as a kid. My mind never understood the price that people paid in war. Now all grown up I have a newfound respect and appreciation for life. I see the value of those that have died that those that still live on. But I’ll never be able to feel the bond that those that have served with others in war have felt. That’s something that you only get when you serve someone side by side. Building a bond through an experience that few have had. One that some never come back from.  It’s through that
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This Sunday was the first day my eight-year-old son Coleston mowed that lawn. I remember when I started mowing lawns. I always looked at it as an inconvenience that I had to do every week. I never truly understood the life lessons my dad was teaching me at the time. He was setting a standard for me to follow. That standard lead to me mowing more lawns to earn money, doing a paper route and shoveling snowy walks.  Now as an adult I’ve run my own business for the last fourteen years. I’ve found over time that how you start something is how you’ll end something. Start off on the right foot and things tend to go really well. The same goes for when you start off
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Sunday was a special day. One day that we take out of the year to publicly acknowledge moms that fight in the war zone of raising a family every day.  Unlike soldiers in wars that are assigned to certain areas of their expertise, moms are assigned to all of them. They are the medic, general, deckhand, counselor, hugger and so much more. One of God’s greatest creations on earth. They sacrifice and pour themselves into their children‘s life. Sometimes never seeing the payoff. Other times only to see it twenty, thirty or forty years later.  But it’s never about the result for them, it’s about showing their love. That’s what moms do best. That’s what the world needs more of. 
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  One of the hardest things not to do in life is to judge things. That applies in all areas of life. People Relationships Business Politics  Views Ideas Our mind pulls from our memory banks and instantly gives us some reading or thought from our past experience. Depending on what that is the result can be a good outcome or one that is skewed. Take for instance new business ideas. A lot of times they sound great and we want to rush out and implement them without any thought to it. I’m super guilty of this. I’ve done it a million times only
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