Our blessings-we can miss them, even when they are staring at us in the face. Read more
Our blessings-we can miss them, even when they are staring at us in the face. Read more
God is funny. I think I can see him smile and simply saying-and always in a south Texas-cowboy kinda voice 'ya like that, don't-chaw?' Yeah Dad, I do. Read more
I wasn’t going to do a Christmas card this year. You, who have received them over the decades, might sigh and sing thank the dear lords of the Madagascar Fruit Farmers!! Read more
What is it? I don’t think it’s a real secret to anyone, many people, including myself, don’t care for turkey. The stores are already looking like they’ve been raided by a pack of wolves with paper lists of things to get before they’re gone. Turkey-its dry, it doesn’t fit in your freezer, it doesn’t fit in your oven. Why do we have it as the traditional Thanksgiving meal rather than, let’s say-meat loaf?History of the First Thanksgiving – History of... Read more
Look, most of us, well, maybe all but four of us, will be disappointed at this point in their life. I should have done this, I should have not done that, races around in our head. We sit on our back porch, or patio, or street corner and we grieve what we haven’t done. Well, guess what? We are perfectly placed. Read more
And yet, Abba loves us just the way we are. The battle is won with Jesus on the cross. I need nothing more than to believe that. Nothing I do, can do, will do, needs to be added. That action is sufficient. Read more
Growing up, there was one poll. It was the Gallup poll, remember that one? It was everywhere. Everyone quoted the Gallup Poll. It was the gold standard of, well, polls. Even the networks quoted them. There were only three networks back then. I am not counting the one UHF channel 13 in Phoenix or channel 8, local public channel. Three networks, that was it. I had six channels to choose from on my TV. The question which comes up is-is God in control? I mean, we have a dumpster fire every day on TV and ya just can't help but wonder, Dad, uhm, do you have this? Read more
We have been bought. We have been pulled from a pile of bodies and chosen to be the adoptive child of the God of the Universe. Read more
Why would God, who loves us so much, sending his son Jesus to die on a cross for us, let us live in something like this? Or, starve, or get sick-bad lingering kind of sickness, or divorce. Pick one. Read more
Okay, I get the idea as we get older, we, well, change. I get that. But I have no ears. Read more