I have four daughters. Counting my wife and I that makes a family of six. The game we played involved a single die. My youngest daughter was assigned the number 1 and each of the other girls were give numbers three through five by age, my wife was 5 and I was six. To play … More Fun Family Game

When my girls were all  teenagers things at our house sometimes got hectic.The girls all attended a smallish Christian High High School. All of my girls were all popular, good students cheerleaders, athletes and well liked. As it happens they re all really beautiful. We also had a swimming pool. That combination meant that the … More Never Cry Over Spilt Milk

Thoughts on Mass Murder and Gun Control….. I learned to read reading the Old Testament stories. The Exodus was a favorite.I read how Moses sent plagues on Egypt as part of the effort to free the Jews . One of the plagues was the plaque of frogs. They were everywhere over the whole country. The … More Thoughts On Mass Murder and Gun Control

Dear Tom, Thanks for your letter. You write well. You will find your own path and tools of recovery. The biggest mistake I made was thinking that recovery was a question of information. My years of research and study did help my thinking. However, knowledge did very little to heal my emotions. My emotions were … More Correspondence About Forgiveness

I have a group of friends that have been friends for nearly 50 years. We all had a home church with them for many years. The Children had a story time with our gifted children’s minister first then they went and played. The kids wandered in and out of the adults meeting. One time my … More A Long Term Fellowship of Deep Friends

A little while ago I watched Barack and Michelle speak at the National Portrait Studio on the occasion of their portraits hung. I had the same impression I had at the convention where Barack was nominated the first time. I thought during the broadcast of that convention and thought again today that maybe we should … More Michelle and Barack

I have included myself in the Me Too movement because of the way my boyhood went sexually. This morning, just 7 hours ago I prayed and asked god to keep on working on the complex damage there is in my personality sexually. I got up this morning excited to go to my meeting today for … More My Wounded Heart

Norman Rockwell was an artist who became the cover illustrator for the magazine “The Saturday Evening Post back in the 1950s and 1960s. He was known for creating magazine covers that were sweet, nostalgic, idealized snapshots of American life. A few years back at a meeting I heard a woman say that Someone should find … More Norman and Me

I don’t remember my first Bible but I cam tell you from the time I came home as a newborn the family would gather on my parents bed to have devotion. Ruthie is 7+years younger than me.so it was 5 kids and mom and dad.Every one took terms reading a verse. When I was a … More My Bible

“Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:” Salvation is by faith. The question here is: “Salvation is the result of whose faith”? “Am I saved by my faith or are we all saved by the faith of … More The Saving Faith of Jesus