Life has ups and downs. Storms and sun. Battles and peace. Mountain tops and lowest valleys. Dancing and mourning. Love and loss. No matter what life is throwing at you this week, know this ... we have a God who is greater, stronger, better, kinder, wiser than anything we encounter. He is the Great Overcomer… Continue reading Let Me Encourage You
There is an interesting kinship between these two authors' works. Children gathered at a place in the country away from family, and they are the characters the epics encircle. Seven volumes to each author's work. British authors at that. A battle between good and evil. A fantasy world connected but separate from the world we… Continue reading C.S. Lewis or J.K. Rowling?
Technology is amazing. With our phones we carry maps, Bibles, internet access, news reports in an instant, thousands of songs and videos, thousands of picture to place on social media outlets, teaching and preaching series, watch TV and movies, keep a datebook, have phonebooks, entire library collections, calculators, and of course, candy crush (or whatever… Continue reading Adjusting to the Technologically Challenged (or, this is for my mother)
This is not about diet. This is not about any recall. This is not even about my displeasure to see, to say the name of, and especially to eat veggies. It is about throwing bread out. Cast it out there. In the philosophical bent of the wisest man to ever live, a writer once told… Continue reading Throw Out That Food
Klepto - Pirate - Plunderer. I confess. I am guilty. The new coach of the Dallas Cowboys confesses in his first press conference that he lied during his interview with owner Jerry, so I want to come clean too. I take other people’s stuff all the time. I often don’t think about it. I am… Continue reading I Am A Thief
It happened at age 14. The song stuck and it’s in my head all the time. They say that ones favorite music style is set around age 14. In that year, it was Paul McCartney and Wing’s Silly Love Song. The opening lines ... You'd think that people would have enough of silly love song.… Continue reading Sacrifice Musicians Because of Silly Love Songs?
It is said that the 2010s was the best decade in world history. Look at the list from a fellow writer ... Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 percent of the world’s population for the first time (it was 35 percent in 1987). Child mortality has fallen to record low levels. Famine has virtually gone… Continue reading Best? Or Stressed?
