"Can you believe this? He called me 'Mister'!""What's wrong with the word 'mister'?""Only a jerk would call someone by THAT label!""How should he have called you?""He's a jerk, and I don't ever want to see his face again!"How easy it is to start a holy war that can...
A walk with my boys got cut short the other day. We had been out for just a little while when suddenly the sky turned gray, the wind picked up, and thunder started to roll in from the clouds. We headed back quickly as the drops started to fall. The rain chased us down...
When April Rains come pouring down, And all the leaves are green, I have to sing a song of joy, For beauty I have seen. I hear the songbirds of the morn, Their lovely, lilting sound, It makes me feel such gratitude That all such things abound. I think I might just...
When I first talked with Jim Bakker, leader of PTL, Heritage USA, and the Inspirational Network, I was the biggest skeptic. I have non-Christian friends for whom Bakker's much-publicized moral failures were one more excuse to reject the faith. So I was convinced I...
"You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you (I have planted you), that you might go and bear fruit..."- John 15:16 (AMP)I noticed a large patch of bright red tulips growing in between my garage and my next door neighbor's fence. It formed a...
It was the first storm of the season.Up until this mid-January night, our quiet Southern Canada town had been experiencing a very mild winter. Or, as some might have called it, a long, cold fall! Our world had prepared itself for winter. The leaves had fallen at the...
I wanted to take her home with us. But she had a home.I wanted to touch her hair, smile and tell her that everything would be just fine.It wouldn't be.I wanted to sit and talk with her awhile, but she'd never understand.I was from America and she was from Guatemala.My...