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"For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell. For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far...
Angelo Dundee is an American boxing corner man. For the uninitiated, a corner man in boxing is one, who gives vital inputs to his ward before and most importantly during the fight. Needless to say, those strategic inputs based on keen observation of the opponent would...
My son and I had gone to Michigan and were bringing my mom and her things back home to Alabama because she was going to live with us. He was driving a U Hall truck and my mom and I were following in my car. All went well until in Nashville, Tennessee the traffic was...
It was December when we visited the beautiful country of New Zealand. Christmastime, to be exact. I knew that New Zealanders had reverse seasons from those who live in the northern hemisphere, and this was precisely why New Zealand was my number one choice of where to...
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." (John 3:16 NKJV) I have always loved Nativity scenes ever since I was a boy. I remember growing up seeing the great care my...
"But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall." (Matt 7:26-27...
She was a compulsive gardener. She grew impossible things from seeds and from cuttings. Every space in her yard was crowded. “I need more space!” she cried, phoning her friend, Grace. Grace owned a spare block of ground alongside. She had the block cleaned and set out...
"Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you." (Luke 6:38 NKJV) I was in the post office the other day waiting to...
A few years ago, many country people in Australia relied on a water bag for daily drinking water. It was a canvas bag measuring about twelve by fifteen inches and it had a porcelain mouthpiece with a cork, or later a screw-cap. Somehow a wire hangar was fixed through...
I have a tiny treasure with history. It is a small cup about the size of an egg-cup but with delicately fluted sides and a pretty flower pattern inside and out. It is of no use for anything practical but I keep it and love it because it reminds me of my mother. She...
We laughed aloud. We have a visiting wild magpie who comes to our door asking for handouts. We love to see him and he knows that if he stands on a certain rock just on the edge of the verandah, we will toss scraps of food to him. So when we answer his presence at the...
"But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found." (Luke 15:32 NIV) My prodigal cat has returned! I found her meowing pitifully on my back porch yesterday after a week of living on the wild side....
Being in the garden on a foggy morning is the nearest thing a singer who cannot sing can come to singing; or a composer who cannot compose can come to composing. Fog is as lavish with softness, with intensity and with intimacy as a song is lavish with sound, or music...