It seems like multiple times a week, something happens that generates a request for prayer for someone or a group. We are asked to pause and pray after major events, such as storms, fires, or shootings. In some cases, someone might say, “All we have left is praying that God […]
Monthly Archives: July 2025
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Today, my mom would have been 82 years old. As I laid here tonight singing lullabies to put my grandbabies to sleep like I do every night, I had so many beautiful memories running through my head. The first house we lived in after I was born had a formal […]
Our memories are built on unremarkable experiences. Things we did without planning, expecting to forget it happened by the next week, let alone fifty years later. Maybe that is a symptom of what we used to call “senile” when old people told stories of “back in my day.” Even at […]
I admit that I did not go to the cemetery to visit the graves of my parents or relatives very often between the burials of other family members. I just never made that a priority in my life. That does not mean I did not think of them often, especially […]
Eva, July 28, 2025, is your fourth birthday since you left my side on Friday, April 22, 2022. It was a bittersweet day, a day I will never forget. It was that day you had lived your life planning for, the time to be with Jesus. It was that day […]
Any weather event with negative consequences is often attributed to global warming or its latest term, usually by those seeking more public funding. I conducted a Bing Search for “global warming articles” and, seconds later, it returned 2,560,000 results. There are more that could be found using different words. It […]
These songs were all pulled from old practice cassette tapes of Eva singing songs while recording on a cassette tape recorder. Some parts may be hard to hear because she is singing so softly and away from the recorder. These tapes are about forty years old. She could hear a […]
As we get older, we realize that the years have flown by as we were living out each day. During the times we were struggling to make ends meet between the paydays, the days seemed like we were living in “slow-motion”. Then there were the years when our kids went […]
During the 1960s, a counterculture movement emerged that popularized the phrase, “If it feels good, do it.” Many of those involved advocated for the use of psychedelic drugs such as LSD. Most of these groups originated at expensive liberal universities. The birth of the kind of “protests” we see today […]
In June 1981, the youth group at our church went to Glorieta, New Mexico, for youth summer camp. Kids aged 13-18 could go and attend the weeklong event for the youth. Eva and I attended a leadership session with our pastor and his wife that week. Although we were not […]