I remember when I thought I had it down…all figured out. I was charting my own course. Poor grades and even flunking out of college after 3 years didn’t phase me. From age 18 – 37, I lived in my apex of brilliance. Failure was just part of the process. My theme song was “I …
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God School: Mail Call
I will always remember “Mail Call” during my Air Force training days. In Basic Training the Drill Instructors would assemble everyone into a group. He would take each envelope, slowly read it, and call out the person’s name. Sometimes he would take extra pleasure in telling everyone who the mail was from or smell the …
Christmas Memories…
To some these are “just” Tupperware containers but to me, they hold precious memories of past Christmas seasons. Before Thanksgiving mother would begin her annual candy & cookie production. In the large round container, she would have layers of fudge separated by sheets of wax paper. Each piece was about 1 ½ “ thick and …
“I Can’t Carry All Of That!”
I was a young college boy the day I learned about perspective. I had run out of gas and walked about a mile to the gas station. When I asked the station manager if I could borrow a gas can, he replied, “All I have is a 5 gallon can." I immediately thought about caring …
“Spoon Fed…”
We all start the same way, somebody spoon feeding us. It starts with a plan or strategy of selecting what “lil” Johnny needed, what he would eat, creative ways and time for the “event” and the clean up afterwards. For Mary & me, the sooner our children learned to use their own spoon, the better. …
X =?
“Solving for X. What does X =”? First, for me to be writing about solving for X only illustrates God’s sense of humor. Only God would pick someone who had to cheat his way through high school Algebra to write this message. In the math world, X is the unknown. In today’s world, Jesus is …
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