"God's gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there's more life to come—an eternity of life!" Titus 3:7 (MSG) With the ever increasing speed of change in today’s world I have to admit that for the first time I am beginning to...
As the year rushes towards its end here in the mountains of my home, changes are everywhere. The sunlight suddenly seems scarce. The blue skies are more gray. The leaves have fallen and the trees are bare. The grass has gone yellow and snow will be coming soon.The...
If there is one thing I have learned over the years it is that life in this world is bittersweet. It always has been and it always will be. I realized this early on and everyday I see further evidence of it. It is something that we all just have to accept.When I was a...
In the days following the first anniversary of my Dad’s death, I couldn’t help but feel sad. I still missed him so much. I would pass a beat up blue pick-up on the road and think it was him.I would walk over to his old house where my daughter now lived and still...
I can still remember the first time I truly felt my heart break. I was 25 years old, sitting in a hospital room with the rest of my family. My beautiful Mom was in the last day of her courageous 4 year fight with Cancer. I looked down on her withered body lying on the...
When I was a boy we had a small 13 inch color television set in our living room. It had a knob to change the channels on it. We rarely turned that knob, however. We lived in the country and our rusty, old antenna could only pick up one channel clearly. If it was...
Recently a kind lady found a six week old puppy abandoned in her driveway. It was skin and bones, covered in fleas, and close to death. It was beyond belief how anyone could do this to a little, baby dog. This wonderful woman, though, rescued this tiny, white ball of...