Of What Lasting Value
Of what lasting value is a good day: *If it’s not also a Godly day? *if you can’t feel the rays of sunshine beyond a cloudy sky? *If you can’t embrace the presence of exhilaration holding a newborn for the first time? *if you couldn’t taste the love that went into making a freshly baked apple pie? *if you […]
You and Me
You & Me is a strategy-driven program utilizing people from a given district, region, or community to implement societal change at the local, regional, national, and international levels. It is structured to bring awareness to the significance of brotherhood, sisterhood, and solidarity while fostering equality between the sexes. Small groups of progressive men, women, and […]
Generation Z
Nearly fifteen years ago, I composed a blog post titled Before There Were Hippies, There Were Beatniks. In it, I tried to explain that Beatniks were more focused on artistic and literary expression, while the Hippies were more concerned with peace, love, and social change in America. The “beat generation” was more individualistic, tending to reject mainstream […]
Harold And Phoebe
I often meet people who leave lasting and meaningful memories. Such is the case of Harold and Phoebe. One early morning forty years ago, I saw an elderly man standing in our driveway. He appeared to be a man of simple needs while possessing an outward gentle nature. He introduced himself to me.saying that he came to […]
The Child Inside Myself
There is a child that lives inside all of us. You know, the one that longs to go out and revel in nature’s fields of dreams The one that was told that children should be seen but not heard The tiny tot who keeps it tucked out of sight, out of mind Who sits alone among […]
Gaining Truth
“Life is an individual thing.”“Never substitute a strong will with an easy way out.”“Sometimes, you have to go through a backdoor to open a closed mind.”“Doubt is the eventual betrayer of faith.”“When we find the one thing we want, we’ve found everything we need.”“Our search begins and ends in the church.”“The only person who can […]
Touch The World Around You
“She danced up to the looking glass lying on her nightstand and gazed upon sunny fields of children changing memories into raindrops to be saved for a stormy day” “Quiet walks and noisy fun sanction the need not hurry the day while leaving tomorrow behind to sparkle and shine” “Only through constant prayer can we […]
Dawn Across Limekiln Lake
Gazing at this incredible image awakened the storyteller in me. I immediately knew I had to feature it in today’s post. It felt like a curtain was about to go up on the camera inside my head, revealing the chromatic kaleidoscope of colors that awaited my imagination and those who would explore this mysterious utopia when they […]
