I’LL HAVE SWEET MARMALADE ON MY PANCAKES PLEASE Another astonishing, wonderous morning is filling my windows, and my mind with light; kissing the rich green leaves and grass that border the blue gray glow of the strong, utilitarian road in …
BIRDS OF A FEATHER I’m not an authority on animal behavior but I do believe that most, if not all, of God’s creatures, have a very basic need to belong, certainly at key points and phases of their life. I …
THERE IT IS There it is, I saw it again, I saw it happen several times yesterday, I saw it last week, I saw it happen when I was 10, I saw it happen in 1963, I saw it when …
REDEEMED Out of a rejected stone deemed inferior and unusable did God set the stage for the young sculptor Michelangelo to render the exquisite statue of David; a statue that to this day, five hundred years later, still expresses God’s …
TO KNOW VS TO UNDERSTAND Life is a miraculous gift that no mortal will ever understand but when we live it with God’s grace, it will curl up at our feet and we will receive the miraculous gift of knowing …
A MORNING AWAKENING This morning as I was awakening from a deep night’s dreaming, I was in the garden and could hear the rich, warm, beautiful voice of the Lord humming and then singing the most rapturous songs. I could …
BE A THOUGHTFUL DESIGNER Life is an unavoidable, bargaining process with each thought that arises in your mind. Bargain carefully, you’re designing the rest of your life. Jack
GOD TAKES HIS TIME I finally finished restoring the old house Mary and I bought across the road from Jack Jackson’s place in Lebanon, Tennessee, It was 1994. Mary burned out and left for Salinas looking for her dream, I …
WE ARE SERVANTS AS WE ARE SERVED Yesterday, I wrote about how no matter what seems to be the truth of what’s going on in the world, God’s plan is going on behind the scene, behind what we see and …
FOR THE HOPE OF AMERICA Our little world is in a terrible state today because the little people who are in charge of it, you and I, have let the THINGS, yes THIHGS we love and value so highly come …