"When perfection comes, the imperfect disappears." (1 Corinthians 13:10 NIV)Do you remember when you were really young? I remember when I was about 5 months old, I was in my mother's arms, and I remember thinking that this was the best place on earth. I even remember...
The best on the job training I ever got in my life came from a very special woman: my Mom. It happened when I was in my early twenties. I had just recently graduated from college but couldn’t find that well paying job I had been hoping for. With a wife and baby son to...
Many years ago, my first wife and I decided to add an addition to our house. We had contractors do the bulk of the work, while I did the smaller jobs. I did all the siding on both the old and new sections of our house. I installed 1000 square feet of parquet flooring...
The Straw Market in Nassau, Bahamas, can be overwhelming at times. Between the noise, the heat, and the multitude of sellers and their wares, it's hard to know which way to turn. So many of the vendors are so eager to sell their goods that they would sell their...
I'm working like a maniac trying to finish a book in two weeks--finish writing it, not reading it. If I write from sunup to sun-back-up and stop wasting time with trivial things like eating, drinking and sleeping I might make it--well, probably not alive. Maybe that's...
The year was 1963, the base Schilling AFB in Salina, Kansas. I had just played one heck of a basketball game when I got my legs cut out from under me on a lay up. I hit the floor hard and immediately went into a gran mal seizure, the first of my life. As I was on the...
Go to the end of your life, dear one.Read what the paper says.Will the account be true and say the thingsYou always hoped would be said?Even when we are very young,The Bible says we are knownBy the deeds we are doing, the deeds we have done.They follow, won’t leave us...