Apr
14
2025
At a group I attended, a woman shared her story of hatred toward her stepfather. She said he verbally and emotionally abused her and made her teen years miserable. Now, as a mother of older children, she still cries...
Apr
11
2025
Military battles, sports, and music competitions all demand mind management and self-regulation skill training and development. It is said that elite, world-class stars in sports or the arts practice more than 10,000 hours. Soldiers also endure much practice.
Yet, every...
Apr
09
2025
Shann and I will be married for thirty-five years this June. A young man asked us if we were glad we married young in light of so many people feeling they made mistakes by marrying too soon. Shann and...
Apr
07
2025
In the Bible study Shann and I are part of, this week’s task is to spend time with a 10 year vision of what God is doing in your life and what He is asking of you. My dad...
Apr
02
2025
Near Lidice, the town razed by the Nazis, the Children of Czechia invited the children of Germany to plant a rose garden. Fifty-one counties sent roses for them to plant, over 100,000 roses.
What am I bitter about right...
Mar
31
2025
We visited a few World War II sites in Prague recently. We drove to the genocide site of Lidice, razed by the Germans after the assassination of Heydrich. The Nazis shot all the men behind a barn. Several women...
Mar
28
2025
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up." This is a wise statement by Booker T. Washington.
A great example of lifting up others is my wife's Grandma Jesse. She outlived many others to the age of 108...
Mar
26
2025
I am in my 35th year of marriage. It is a lovely and loving time. We survived the first year of empty nesting after 27 years of children in the home. Now the house is very silent. No singing...
Mar
24
2025
There is a bridge in Prague that is one of the most famous in the world. Near one end is a metal statue, most of the others are entirely of stone. It is Christ on the cross looking down...
Mar
21
2025
Imagine the hopelessness one would experience under the following conditions:
Stay of execution although standing before a firing squad
Ten years in prison
Death of wife
Death of a favorite brother
A debt of approximately $850,000
Obligation to write a novel within a year or...
