Once upon a time two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in 40 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, and trading labour and goods as needed without a hitch. Then the long collaboration fell apart. It...
"Friends,God's been kinda nudging me since early this morning to share something that happened yesterday....no place special, just my tiny Midwestern corner of the world. I hope that it blesses you as it did me, and if it brings a tear at all, I pray that it's a tear...
Is it difficult for you to forgive? To let the past be past? It is for me. Nearly impossible some-times. I'm a little like the elderly Virginian woman who lived to see her beloved Richmond occupied by Union troops after the American Civil War. The matron was walking...
It is accurately said that it is easy to be an angel when nobody ruffles your feathers. But it seems that feather rufflers will always be around.We're told that 19th Century German statesman Prince Otto von Bismarck once became so incensed at the criticism of a...
Last Wednesday morning, I woke up with a slight headache. It was no big deal, and I expected it to go away. It didn't. So around 8:30, I took some medicine. By 9:00, my headache was still there, and actually seemed to be getting worse. Puzzled, I picked up the bottle...
Pappy was a pleasant-looking old fellow. He had the whitest hair which he kept neatly cut and combed. His eyes were blue, though faded with age, and they seemed to emit a warmth from within. His face was quite drawn, but when he smiled, even his wrinkles seemed to...