As Christmas presents accumulate around the tree, we hope the best looking one is ours. If we get our desires, we can only be assured of getting the nicest wrappings. Wrappings are the least valuable part of the present and will be cast aside when the present itself is revealed. The goal should be the […]

Grief is a natural human reaction when someone dies. Especially if they were nice, and you loved them. I told a man who had recently lost his wife, “Of course you miss her, she was a good woman.” I feel that way about my good friend who passed away a few years ago. I loved

Last week we took a trip to Waco, Texas to visit the places we saw on the TV program “Fixer Upper.” We didn’t expect to see the stars of the show, Chip and Joanna Gains, but we hoped to see some of their work. In the show they fixed up old houses, transforming them into

I was attending the Family Friday service at Heritage Christian Church, where our Pastor was teaching us to pray for each other and let the Holy SPIRIT lead us. People are usually shy about praying for people, so Pastor Bob assigned us someone to pray for. I wondered who he would select for me. I

The headlines screamed of a major tragedy! It was bad and might get worse. In the old days they would have said “Stop the press” to indicate the headlines would be replaced, but the story had already taken over cable and network news and the internet. Had we been attacked or were masses of people