Spooky Walks

A friend of mine from church shared this last week about how he was traumatized as a child one Halloween, when he went around with his siblings and cousins.  He even finished the evening at a hunted house and relates being scared of vampires for quite a time after the...

Borrowed

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;  Psalm 24:1 Whenever I start to get greedy about things, I am often humbled when I am reminded that none of this stuff that I am getting worked up over is mine anyway.  It is like when...

Long Gone

Do you have any idea who these people are?  What if I told you their names, the man on the left is Conrad Heyer, and the second is William Hutchings, would that help?  Probably not, as I had no idea who these people were when I first saw them.  These are actually...

Creatures of Habit

How predictable is your daily routine?  Are there some things that you do most every day that are so ingrained in your nature, you don’t even have to think about doing them?  My morning routine getting my oldest son up and ready for school is fairly predictable for...

Highs and Lows

Just a week ago, I saw the bank thermometer read 99 degrees when I was driving back home through a small town on September 20th.  Within a few days it was cold and rainy, and this morning, the thermometer read below freezing.  If you live in Iowa, you kind of expect...