Title: When Love Means Giving Up What YOU Want, To Give Others What They NEED From The Master: “Give, and it will be given to you. A good...

WE WERE NEARING THE END of an active morning on the playground. It was chilly by southern standards. Even though the sun was fully out,...

IT'S THE SECOND DAY of the year. The sound of that sentence alone rings so strangely as I mouth it. As the decades pile higher, I marvel...

When Nightmares Come Scripture:   “You can go to bed without fear; you will lie down and sleep soundly. You need not be afraid of sudden...

THE "SILO" this seed grew up in stood on land that had been a cow pasture for decades, maybe for centuries. Fertile soil. It was familiar...

BY THE END of the last sentence you will know the secret to our “happy” marriage. I knew I didn’t want a church wedding, but how would I...

IT'S SO EASY, Rayleigh, to overlook people where I live. It requires no effort. So how is it that I have not forgotten you? While...

The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness."...

THROUGHOUT MY CAREER YEARS, I quickly learned to follow what was expected of me in the rule books which are often referred to as Employee...

IF SOMEONE ASKED ME, “Do you know the difference between good and evil?” I might be offended. I would think, “What are you insinuating...

FRIENDS ARE OUR celestial élan vital that time and distance can never erase. . . Sparkling multi-colored pieces of ourselves. Living...

I REMEMBER the gardens my grandparents planted so many years ago. It was a time when Roswell, Georgia, was a very different place. Rows...

WE'VE ALL HEARD IT many times. "A penny for your ______." Being a prolific daydreamer, I admit I have drifted away a time or two, even in...

SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH, Mark Twain wrote: “Myriads of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle…they squabble and scold and...

IT’S OBVIOUS that my hometown’s roadways, originally designed for a maximum of six million in metro population, cannot handle ten million...

CURIOUS, I BEGAN TO PERUSE recent articles about reduced church attendance and related concerns as the pandemic fades. Times have...

A few monikers in honor of Dads: Guardian, defender, protector, encourager, half-crazy, wise. Insightful listener. Bandager of boo-boos;...

I STOOD SMILING, my newly-polished Vega Wonder five-string banjo in hand, before a packed gymnasium at a campus talent show. Directly in...

IT IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST questions I remember. No one will be surprised to learn that it came from my mother. And, early on, as children...

WE IN DELTA AIR LINES' Original Honor Guard had the easiest part in this scenario, for we were alive and whole. We had no battle on...