... that in the story, Silver Blaze, the clue that most interested Sherlock Holmes was the dog that didn't bark in the night. Why didn't it bark? Gordon goes on to say that in reading the latest Forbes list of the four hundred richest Americans, he was most impressed by the names that weren't there--names like Astor, Carnegie, Frick, Gould, Harriman, Morgan and Vanderbilt. At the turn of this century, these names personified American wealth beyond counting. Today those names are to be found on street signs ...
Nissan Motors once used as its motto: WE ARE DRIVEN! According to Gordon MacDonald that phrase describes many of us. We are driven. Driven to acquire-driven to achieve-driven to be ... of losing their health or their marriage or their job. They were afraid even when there were no tangible grounds for their fears. Do you know anyone like that? Lois Gould in her novel, SUCH GOOD FRIENDS, has a character who is convinced for years that sooner or later he would have cancer. His wife said of him, "His living faith ...
