I got a new picture of my sponsor child Lizther in the mail today. I was amazed at how different she seemed now. It looked like she had grown up overnight. I went and took her older pictures of her younger days and placed them side by side with the new photo. There...
"I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor — it is the gift of God." (Eccl 3:12-13 NKJV) Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that, "Though we travel the...
"Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." (1 John 4:11 NKJV) I decided to take my sons for a walk the other day. Autumn was in the air. Rich, delightful reds painted by God’s own hand were coloring some of the trees. Heavenly yellows shining...
"And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn." (Luke 2:7 NKJV) In his wonderful book "Seven Stories of Christmas Love" the author Leo Buscaglia writes about...
"... Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ ..." (Eph 5:20-21 NKJV) Whenever the bare trees and grey skies of mid November start to get me down and I start to mope about how Autumn always ends too early, I go to a...
"A merry heart does good, like medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones." (Prov 17:22 NKJV) Here is a riddle for you. What is black, white and brown, has eight legs, and can do 60 miles an hour down a carpeted hallway? Do you give up? The answer is two puppies...
Christmas is a season when we give gifts to those we love. Like the three wise men of old too we each hope to find the perfect gift to express our love. As I look back on all the perfect gifts that I have gotten over the years, however, I have noticed that none of...
"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13-14 NKJV) When I was a boy growing up my Dad, Mom, Grandma, two brothers and I all lived together in an aging house. The house had originally been built from two Shanty...
"This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it." (Ps 118:24 NKJV) Autumn this year in the mountains of my home has been truly spectacular. It is like an angel artist has been assigned to paint each tree in the most glorious colors imaginable....
"If there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law." (Rom 13:9-10 NKJV) It was six years ago. I was walking into a...