I have always loved Christmas music and I don’t just listen to it in December either. I have been known to listen to “The Christmas Song” on the first day of Spring, “Jingle Bells” during the worst heat of Summer, and “Let it snow” while the leaves are peaking in the...
A beautiful, young girl is smiling at me from a picture frame on my desk as I write this. She is my sponsor child from the Philippines and even though I have never met her in person she has found a special place in my heart. It doesn’t cost me much to help her, about...
The sun was just coming up over the mountains today as I took my dogs for their morning walk. I smiled as I watched the purple, pink and red clouds slowly turn to white and gold. The air was cool rather than cold and the sweet sunshine was warm on my face. Even though...
It was a few days before Christmas many years ago and it looked like it would be a lean one for my family. The saw mill that I was working at had laid a lot of us off while machinery was being repaired so we didn’t have much money. My wife and I had scrimped and saved...
Life is full of miracles. They surround us every day. One of these miracles happened to me recently. I was filling my car’s tank at a local gas station. It was only 10 A.M. but I already felt tired. It was a cloudy, gloomy and rainy day and I hadn’t slept well the...
It was many years ago. I was a young dad sitting on the couch reading a fairy tale to my little girl. She sat next to me with her head on my arm as I told the tale. When it came to the end I finished with those famous words: “And they lived happily ever after.” As I...
"Be kind to each other, sympathetic, forgiving each other as God has forgiven you through Christ." Ephesians 4:32 (GW) It was many years ago. I was a young father on my way home to my wife and baby boy after spending all day taking college classes. I had gone back to...