I met my wife-to-be during my first year as a French teacher at Walla Walls College. Princess, my Siamese cat wasn't too impressed, but then who asks one's cat permission to date? A few months into the semester, some friends of mine from Seattle invited my wife-to-be...
2 Corinthians 12:7b - Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. (NRSV)I was driving down the Interstate and had an arterial venial malformation -- a leak in my...
This year when my husband asked me what I would like for Christmas my answer was "A love Letter!"... We are together 35 years, and except for writing A & E (always and ever) on store bought cards, he has never written anything to me stating his feelings. It would...
John 1:29 - The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (NIV)Several months ago, I was involved in a traffic accident while driving along a major roadway in a shopping mall parking lot. My car...
"But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous." - Matthew 5:44-45In the Christian...
I am a New York City Police Officer. On July 12, 1986, I was on patrol in Central Park and stopped to question three teenagers. While I was questioning them, the oldest, a fifteen-year-old, took out a gun and shot me in the head and neck.Thanks to the quick action of...
Lately our Pastor has been preaching on a very good subject. He has been talking about the "space" between the "stimulus" and the "reply" to the stimulus. Now, it really makes a lot of sense. Someone does or says something to you (stimulus), and then you have a second...