Allen Jones

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My Old Man

Country singer Zac Brown sang a song entitled, “My Old Man” a few years ago. The lyrics of the song chronicles a young boy looking up to his father, the young boy growing through the teenage “rebellious” years as he sought independence, and the song ends with the young boy now being a father seeking …

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The Big Picture

Many years ago, I worked for a Principal who is probably in my top three “school bosses” that was my supervisor as being one of my favorites.  He was a good “manager” but not a good “leader.”  There is a difference!  He wasn’t necessarily inspiring, but he liked a “low-pressure” work environment.  During faculty meetings …

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Don’t Waste Your Pain

             I have a friend who retired from law enforcement a few years ago who had an elementary aged daughter to pass away unexpectedly.  At the time, his daughter had a very rare disease that was not detected.  While we are all so thankful for medical advancements, we all know that technology is improving, but …

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Being Broken In A Broken World

 I recently listened to an interview with a familiar writer and speaker known to most of mainstream media talk about losing his adult child to suicide.  As I cried through the interview, the gentleman labored through his comments, he made many points that got my attention and actually encouraged me. You see, we all walk …

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Spring

On the nineteenth of this month, Spring officially began!  Spring will run through June twentieth. Most of us look forward to springtime. The time has sped up, the brightness of the day seems to last longer, and of course the warm temperatures bring about more activities outside.  We can also look at spring as a time of …

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Live Simply

    In a world that seems to be more and more cluttered with frustrations, concerns, uncertainties, pain, and hurt from emotional & physical challenges coupled with spiritual obstacles, aren’t we thankful that God only wants us to Live Simply for Him? His desire is for us to be saved and not live a complicated life. There is …

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How Capable Are You?

  All of my life, I have heard it said, “You are only as strong as your weakest link!”  My humble understanding of this quote means, every “link” on your chain (metaphorically speaking) is important, needs to be proficient in the mission of the organization, and makes a positive contribution if success is to be …

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Dealing With Attacks and What Can We Learn?

 How many of us feel that most days of our life everything is “good?”  Or, if someone asks how things are going, we might say, “I’m good, all good.”  I enjoy my days when things are going “well,” or as we say, “good.”  But, like the weather in Kentucky, if we will hang on for …

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What’s Left When The Building Is Gone?

For nearly twenty years, my daddy worked in a local feed mill. When I was a little boy, he told stories of working in all types of weather conditions scooping corn, bagging feed for farmers for their livestock, driving trucks for deliveries to those farmers, and doing all sorts of laborious tasks in a dusty & …

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How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives

 This time of year my mind hearkens back to when my parents would stop by Kenneth Calvert’s drug store and pick up several calendars so they would be ready to hang when January 1st would show up!  The drug store, for decades, always had the same type of calendar.  In fact, it was referred to …

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