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January 2012

  • Hope Springs
    January 27, 2012

    I’m staring out my office window at the skyline of Manhattan, which is draped in fog and drizzle. A few minutes ago the rain was coming down in torrents. Arguments about climate change aside, it is passing strange that we keep having these 60-degree days in January. It’s not supposed to work like that. This is more like April than the dead of winter, but without the extra sunlight. Warm and dark and dank.

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  • Does God Really Care About Pro Football?
    January 20, 2012

    A fellow football fan sent me a cartoon the other day. It showed a downtrodden player speaking to the media: “First I’d like to blame the Lord for our defeat ...”

    Isn’t it consistent, my friend teased, that if Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, a devout Christian, thanked the Lord for victories, players should also blame heaven for their losses?

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  • First Dogs' Inspiring Stories
    January 13, 2012

    “If you want a friend in Washington,” Harry Truman famously snarled, “get a dog!”

    Old Harry wasn’t kidding. He had two for good measure: Feller, a cocker spaniel, and Mike, an Irish setter (more about Irish setters later). In fact, the vast majority of U.S. Presidents have been dog owners, and every president in the twentieth century has owned at least one dog (Calvin Coolidge seems to hold the record at 11). In fact, the family dog has been credited with saving several political careers from ruin.

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  • Canine Inspiration
    January 6, 2012

    You never know when—or how—inspiration will hit. 

    For instance this year I decided that I’d had it with New Year’s resolutions. I was sick of making lists and forgetting about them or worse, unearthing them later in the year and realizing how completely I’d failed. I’m not sure how I came to this conclusion—perhaps it was just the accretion of failure—but I was determined to stick with it. Besides, were there any resolutions I hadn’t already tackled at one time or another?

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Edward Grinnan is Editor-in-Chief and Vice President of Guideposts Publications. Edward lives in New York City with two blondes—his wife, Julee, and Golden Retriever, Millie, who has been featured in his blog and popular videos. Edward loves cycling, hiking with Millie at his house in the Berkshire Hills and Wolverines that hail from Michigan.

If you need a little boost of inspiration, pick up a copy of Edward's book The Promise of Hope: How True Stories of Hope and Inspiration Saved My Life and How They Can Transform Yours.