James 1:19: My beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak…..:Have you ever been talking to someone and realize they are not hearing a word you say? Makes you feel so insignificant, doesn’t it? Have you ever just stopped talking right in the middle...
Philippians 4:13 " I can do everything through him who gives me strength." NIVThe hummingbird darted from one side of the garage to the other. It went from the ceiling to the floor, but found no escape. My daughter thought it was rather odd the bird didn’t fly out the...
"Sustained winds of 50 miles per hour and higher," blared the radio.My wife was listening to the radio. She has a love-hate relationship with our Minnesota weather. This has turned her into a bit of a weather junkie. She finds our weather both intriguing and...
HTML clipboard I used to have a Siamese cat named Princess. Although this cat had many special qualities, what I found to be really special about her was her empathy.If I arrived home in a good mood and didn't notice her greeting me, I could call her to my heart's...
His name was Ronnie and he would continually come each day faithfully and share his Baptist belief about Jesus Christ to me. I had known Ronnie for many years in my boyhood town but through the years we became separated and went our own way in life. Now here he was...
My middle son is 28 and a very big and healthy young man, but when he was 6 months old we had a close encounter of the best kind with the Word of God. Aaron was a winter baby, unlike his older and younger brothers, who were born in the summer time. Unlike them also,...
One night a number of years ago, I received a phone call from my father. He was quite troubled with his voice shaking; he told me that he had admitted my mother to the hospital. Upon asking what had happened, he replied that she was very sick and in a lot of pain....