Founded upon God

For two years our family lived in a relatively basic house in Nicaragua (downright primitive by American standards). As is fairly typical in the tropics, the walls did not go all the way to the roof, meaning there was a several foot gap that allowed birds, bats,...

Influence of a Faithful Dad

If your only exposure to the concept of fatherhood was television and movies you would likely think dads are among the most useless of all creatures. Dads are commonly depicted as overweight, lazy, disconnected, beer loving buffoons that can barely dress themselves,...

Accept the new normal?

Maybe I grew up really sheltered and naive, but I don’t remember the sheer amount of anger and negativity in the world that seems to be normal today. It’s certainly possible that our society has long been filled with anger, pride, arrogance, heartlessness,...

My Kingdom

Growing up, my mom ran a daycare in our house, The great part of that was we had a humongous amount of toys at home. The bad part was that I had to share all of them with a dozen other kids. A toy I partially disliked sharing was my Legos. For whatever reason, we had...

So distracted

During World War II NAZI High Command was obsessed with U.S. General George S. Patton. Patton’s strategic brilliance and never surrender attitude had defeated the NAZI’s in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. He was perhaps the only Allied general Hitler and...