January 2009 | Insight For Living Canada

INSIGHTS MAGAZINE CANADA

Choose Your Rut Carefully

by Phil Callaway

I love reading road signs. Like the one welcoming you to Kettle Falls, Washington, the home of “1255 friendly people and one grouch.” In Hilt, California, a sign advises: “Brakeless trucks, use freeway.” Along Oregon’s winding coast, another warns: “Emergency stopping only. Whale watching is not an emergency. Keep driving.” I pulled into a service station once. A bold sign proclaimed, “We have Mexican food. We have gas.” But my favourite of them all is posted on an Alaska highway: “Choose your rut carefully. You’ll be in it for the next two hundred miles.”

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No Time for Islands

by Steve Johnson

How important are you? Chuck answers that when he writes, More important than you think. A rooster minus a hen equals no baby chicks. Kellogg minus a farmer equals no corn flakes. If the nail factory closes what good is the hammer factory? Paderewski’s genius wouldn’t be much if the piano tuner hadn’t shown up. A cracker maker will do better if there’s a cheesemaker. The most skillful surgeon needs the ambulance driver who delivers the patient. Just as Rodgers needed Hammerstein, you need someone and someone needs you.

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Making fresh meals for Yourself

by Chuck Swindoll

It’s that time of year again. You know the one I’m talking about—that time when a perfectly good four-letter word becomes the New Year’s dreaded word—D-I-E-T. If you’re like me, you’ll begin 2009 with a fresh and invigorating commitment that this year will be different. You will put down that burger and Coke and pick up a... it’s so hard to swallow... a salad and ice water. But with determination, this year you’ll turn that resolution into reality.