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The Great WWGM Giveaway
I know it will be difficult for most of you to believe, but I have not always been the serious, poker faced, brooding person who stands before you today. In fact, there were a few decades of my life when this deadpan and humorless shell of a man didn’t exist. When I lived in […]
The Night of the 28 Salads
Albert Schweitzer once said, “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” And I absolutely believe he’s right. In fact, if we are to follow the example of Jesus, that was His edict from heaven. Matthew 20:28 says, “That is what the Son Of Man […]
The Albatross I Own
A friend of mine posted a picture on Facebook recently that conveyed my life in an extraordinarily powerful way. I reposted it on my page. It was a black and white sketch drawing of a scruffy bearded, young man’s profile. He wore a wide, toothy grinned, squinty, wrinkle-eyed, joyous laugh. Maybe he was watching something […]
A Garden For Momma
On Mother’s Day, 1995, my sister Jacqui and I spent the day preparing a special gift for our mom. The condo she lived in was in a great part of town. But, there was very little lawn around her except for a green space that separated her row of condos from the next row behind […]
The Veil Was Pulled Back
In the third installment of J. R.R. Tolkien’s epic trilogy, The Lord OF The Rings, Minas Tirith, the fortified capital of Gondor became the staging area between the forces of good and the evil armies of Mordor.. All was seemingly lost as the onslaught of Mordor rammed through gate after gate of the city. […]
It’s Not Your Time Yet
I remember a line from Pretty Woman when Julia Robert’s character says, “The bad stuff is so much easier to believe.” And it makes sense that Satan would use the bad stuff about us to keep us in a state of feeling less than what the Lord has planned for us to be. And the […]