Author Archives: Bill Halamandaris

What is the common characteristic of life’s failures?  What do neurotics, psychotics, criminals, perverts, problem children, and other misfits have in common? All of life’s failures are failures simply because they have not been able to get beyond themselves.  They … Continue reading →

“The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in your way is a sign that God wants you to do something for them,” Mother Teresa said. Her order, The Missionaries of Charity, was founded on this truth. I … Continue reading →

I wrote about a news story I saw last week (see below). The bodies of an elderly couple were discovered when the sheriff’s department showed up to evict them from their home. The story really touched me and I just … Continue reading →

Everything material emerged from the immaterial. Every building is constructed on a design. Every design is based on an idea. As Emerson observed, “thoughts rule the world.” A thought precedes every action, change, or motion. In this world, things only … Continue reading →

Most of us are descendants of people who have come to America from some other place. Many endured great hardships to do so, leaving everything familiar behind, taking with them only the clothes on their backs, a few meager belongings … Continue reading →