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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 & …
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 …
Thank You
Paraphrasing Lou Gehrig’s speech from 1939 after he had received the news regarding his health while speaking to the New York Yankee fans, he said in sum, “Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth…I have always received kindness and encouragement.” The contents of Gehrig’s speech summarizes how I …
While the Plane Is In the Air
As I type on my keyboard, our son is about to travel to the airport in Nashville and board a flight out west. To give you a timeline, I’m typing on a Friday, the article is due Monday morning, and he and his group are due to return Monday night (I think). I trust in …
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