STANDING FIRM I was talking to a friend of mine a week or so ago and we circled back to some people we knew in high school and where are they now. I sometimes can’t remember my own name so remembering people from a half century ago seems like a waste of energy. But my friend can remember names, faces, birthdays, what they were known for and maybe who their History teacher was. And when we started to talk about... Read more
Sometimes, I am just tired. Read more
NICE THINGS I have come to realize I like nice things. No, not like a Ferrari or a Lexus. Have you ever ridden in a Ferrari? You sit low like you’re sitting on the street, traveling at 80 miles an hour in second gear from stop like to stop like. It’s like that roller coaster ride at Disneyland’s California Adventure. Who the hell wants that? No. I’m talking about a freshly made bed, jammy sleep-shorts, a cool night (please dear... Read more
I believe Dad does what Dad does to build our faith and to come closer to Him, not push us away from Him. Read more
CRAZY TIMES! I think I would like to go back in time, to several different seasons, and see if it was clearly as nutso as it is now. Crazy times we live! It wouldn’t be obvious ones, like World War I or its sequel, II. That was pretty clear I wager. …an entire generation…. The sixties were pretty interesting. It was the first time, an entire generation, or parts of that generation, stood up and said ‘I think... Read more
FATHERS DAY Being today is Fathers Day and the timing of things in this world is never random, I saw a great post on Facebook about a week before Mothers Day of some women I know who were standing among other younger women—some holding babies. The post was talking about ‘here is to strong women, may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.’ …about mothers…. I used it to write about mothers after it... Read more
OKAY, IT’S YOUR TURN Okay, so a week from today is Father’s Day. It is to celebrate our dads because last month we celebrated our mums and now its dad’s turn. But for a chunk of families, there is no dad. He left. Maybe it is you. Maybe the guy next to you, or down the street. I’m not the father type… Maybe you found yourself saying you didn’t want to ‘be tied down,’ or ‘wasn’t the father type,’... Read more
REMEMBER Remember this Memorial Day weekend, you have heard me rant before, is not a day to buy towels on sale. These couple of days are not mattress sale days, it is not even a barbeque day although I can justify that better than mattresses. It is a sad weekend about what we have lost. It is about places. This weekend is about places. Some, places we know—Concord, Vicksburg, The Somme, Bastogne, Chosin, Khe Sahn, Fallujah, Kandahar... Read more
MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS, SISTERS, WOMEN Last weekend was Mother’s Day. Christians have this whole debate thing about wives, submit to your husbands…right after it tells men to love their wives. I think that little part of the Bible has been one of the worst exploited pieces of truth ever spoken by Man. Truly, we as men, are terrible with that phrase when talking about Mothers, daughters, sisters. Just even women in general. We use it-some of us, I don’t want to... Read more
But God could do it. He could give you the numbers and you win it. Then what? He could give you a car-then what? Or a clean bill of health? Read more
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