I recently had a blow -- with a diagnosis that I had a rare form of crippling arthritis. As this uninvited guest took over my days and nights with chronic pain, my faith was pushed to the breaking point. Thankfully, God in His mercy has stretched and grown me in...
Wisdom comes to us in millions of amazing ways in this world. Just today I was driving up to the local bank’s drive through lane. A red pickup truck was in front of me. On the back of it was a bumper sticker that said: “Dear Lord, please help me to be the person...
Wisdom comes to us in millions of amazing ways in this world. Just today I was driving up to the local bank’s drive through lane. A red pickup truck was in front of me. On the back of it was a bumper sticker that said: “Dear Lord, please help me to be the person...
I was lying on my back this morning doing a few light exercises hoping to coax a little more energy into my aging body to face another day. As I was doing them, however, my eyes and mind started to wander. I looked up at an old picture of me and my children back when...
I was a young boy growing up in an old, ramshackle house with my Mom, Dad, Nana, and two brothers. It was a cold, winter’s evening and the bitter wind was seeping through the old house’s cracks. It was 7:30 P.M. but had already been pitch black outside for over an...
He could have killed him. In fact, he almost did. It was a terrible accident.Jack Keith was driving along the Pacific Coast Highway one morning during the Memorial Day weekend last year. He was admiring the waves of the Pacific Ocean momentarily when suddenly his...
I couldn’t have been more than ten or eleven years old. It was a hot, Summer afternoon and I decided to cool off by taking a swim in the river that ran down the hill from our home. The water was cold and my dog jumped in to splash around with me. After a while I...