atthew 13:24b-25 - The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and went away. (ESV)I have noticed broken glass on the tarmac where I ride my bike. I...
We had to call in the exterminator guys this week. Again. They know us well. It's because if we see even one bug, those people get a call…and I don't mean maybe. See, in my mind, one bug means we're infested. And while we're in my mind (not necessarily the safest...
I was standing at the foot of my mother’s bed along with my father and my two sisters, watching…. Watching….. watching the pulse in my mother’s neck; watching her life slowly ebb; watching my life end as I knew it. I watched till her heart beat, the pulse in her neck...
During the 1890s, sarcastically called "The Gay (Happy) 90s", the United States was in the midst of a deep depression. The country was rapidly being transformed from a farm-based society into an industrial giant. Some might have more accurately labelled the developing...
Galatians 5:22-23 - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. (KJV)Romans 8:28 - That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is...
It's a confusing world we live in.I remember one of my professors unsuccessfully trying to explain to me the theory of supply and demand: "The more people want something, the higher the price tag," he told me.Does this means that computers are not as much in demand...
I was pet sitting my family’s 13 birds while they were on vacation last summer. We had gotten ourselves down to a regular routine, and this one morning, after the ‘out of cage’ period for my little feathered friends, it was, once again, ‘find, sort and return to cage’...