My Child, You may not know me, but I know everything about you. Psalm 139:1 I know when you sit down and when you rise up. Psalm 139:2 I am familiar with all your ways. Psalm 139:3 Even the very hairs on your head are numbered. Matthew 10:29-31 For ...
Read More »The Task of Teaching a Teenager
I teach. I am a sounding board reverberating simple instructions into the atmosphere known as the classroom. My mind is a magnitude of knowledge bursting at the edge of my skull while it watches the hairs on my head turn into a slumbering shade of gray. Frustration is fuming all ...
Read More »THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING!
It doesn’t matter how the day is going, or what has been accomplished, something is bound to go wrong. One of my favorite exclamations when this happens to me is ‘There is always something!’ We’ve all been there. We plan an event, or a trip, or even just a simple, ...
Read More »Our Veterans Young and Old
Here are two stories about veterans spanning the younger and older generations. Army Corporal Ethan Laberge was severely wounded in Afghanistan by a suicide bomber which killed two of his buddies. Shrapnel disabled his legs and right arm. He so far as gone through 10 surgeries. He also suffered memory ...
Read More »Custom Made Christianity
“What can I get for you today?” “May I have your special without any mayo, mustard, onion, tomatoes, pickles, or lettuce? Oh, and can you take off the Swiss and replace it with cheddar, and then change the pickles to fresh cucumbers and the mayo to light ranch. Not ranch, ...
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