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I often wonder if my hearing is waning I have lots of friends with high tech hearing aids; funny, I thought my friends needed them because they are all so much older than me, but then it’s not so funny because my friends are mostly my age. Selective hearing has been a suggestion that my …
The rumble of the ground was felt for hundreds of miles and registered a 2.1 on the Richter scale. Businesses, public spaces and homes were destroyed or damaged beyond repair. Lives were shattered, dreams dissipated, hearts broken as time moved fast and stood still both. The explosion at the local fertilizer plant on April 17 …
The usual first agenda item on the way to the ranch is the stop at Dairy Queen. We sit and get to know each other a bit better, maybe reacquaint ourselves with each other. It doesn’t take much and we are laughing and eating and enjoying huge ice cream cones in short order. I remember …
I wanted to cry, I wanted to beat my fist against the wall, I wanted to take him up and rescue him when I heard the story. A little boy who was left at home while his mother enjoyed the beach with her newest boyfriend on a long weekend. The boy said he really did …
It was cold out that night and the wind was steady from the north. The last ride dropped the two boys off about a mile back at the overpass that took him home. There was nothing around this exit of the interstate, so the only option they had was to get back to the road …
You just never know when God is going to come. My friend Jeff is convinced He speaks to him through billboards and he has more than once told us stories to back it up. Sometimes you will meet someone and a conversation with this perfect stranger will turn into an answer to a prayer or …
I am never quite sure how to describe my encounters with the Holy Spirit. Well, that’s not exactly true – I can tell you about them one at a time, individual events, but when it is a prolonged period, say, two weeks, it gets a bit harder. Just a week or two before the Kids …
The thick concrete bridge holds hundreds of thousands of cars, trucks, busses and other vehicles each week as they pass through the center of the city. Many of the drivers are listening to the radio, talking on their phones, conversing with other passengers or adrift in thought. To most of those passing by the bridge …
