If you’re meeting someone for the first time, it’s good to have some common ground, especially if that person is famous and you’re a bit nervous. Dr. Ben Carson is a retired neurosurgeon who is now serving as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. “He is considered a pioneer in the field of neurosurgery; he performed … Continue reading “The Next Time I Meet Ben Carson” →

What must God think when he looks at the human race? Look over the centuries at “man’s inhumanity to man”… wooooo, boy oh boy…what a mess. Forget about the Hitlers and Stalins and 1994 Rwanda Genocide (1 million murdered in 100 days), just think about the more normal sinful people. If I look at my … Continue reading “Mercy Is Contageous” →

Many of you are familiar with the author Louis L’Amour. President Ronald Reagan knew him and awarded him  the “Presidential Medal of Freedom” in 1984.  Louis  wrote over a hundred novels, mainly about the old west. One of my friends described his books as “literary potato chips”…. once you started, you just kept going, you couldn’t put them … Continue reading “My Soul’s Longing” →

Originally posted on May 14, 2020 “ Am  I  Ready” Sometimes it’s easy to fake yourself out. You think about or say something and you think you’ve actually done it. “You know with this new diet I can lose 30 pounds in 30 days. I’m going to get a new wardrobe; people will start calling me string … Continue reading Classic BLOG from The Past →

Originally posted on May 13, 2020 “Have Hope” Sometimes it’s hard to be hopeful. I’ve been a St. Louis Cardinal fan since I was a baby. I remember listening to their games with my dad in the early ‘50’s from southeast Missouri. After the Cardinals celebrated my birth in 1946 by winning the World Series, … Continue reading Classic BLOG from The Past →

I’ve been thinking recently of how we have moments in our life that seem like they are never going to end …. they are the “normal for the future"… the way things are going to be forever, or at least for a long time. We enjoy these times but assume there’s plenty more to come.  … Continue reading “The New Normal – Always Changing ” →

“You couldn’t pay me a million dollars to do that (again) … but I wouldn’t take a million dollars for the experience.”  Have you ever felt that way about any of your experiences? I’ve heard this from some who have been in the military…others who survived a serious illness… and some who have suffered in … Continue reading “The Experience of Suffering” →

Before the Coronavirus and the quarantine, no one used the word ZOOM, except little kids playing cars….”zooooom, , zooooooom …….uuurrrrrttttt ……zoom…. uuuurrrttttt….crash.”  Really! If you could calculate the total times the word ZOOM was said in 2020 vs 2019 … maybe a zillion to one.  People of all ages know about ZOOM. I feel like … Continue reading “ ZOOM” →

For our 51st wedding anniversary our youngest son gave us a 55” TV. I have to say I can see a lot better. While we don’t watch much TV, we have begun to watch a few more things.  Marshall Matt Dillon I’ve recently seen a few episodes of the old “Gunsmoke” TV series that ran from … Continue reading “Gunsmoke” →

There’s a lot of history to Labor Day. It’s a time for bar-b-ques and picnics and that last trip to the beach ...... vacation season ending and school starting. It originated almost 150 years ago and marked a sign when labor fought back for some well deserved rights in our country. You can read that  “Labor … Continue reading “Happy Labor Day!” →