Smiles

Friday, January 29, 2021  “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”  Matthew 19: 14 Four years ago, at a Society Meeting, the board president awarded me with a cowboy hat. I still reflect on the message he was sending to…

“I Feel Your Pain”

“Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.” Romans 12:15 I recently read about Father Damien, a missionary to the leper colony on the island of Molokai. The island was a place where lepers were sent soon after being diagnosed. It was a place they went to die. His courageous devotion to the people…

“I Know How You Feel”

“Hi Lar. Dad had a stroke. I think this is it.”  The call from my twin brother came early last Wednesday morning. At the time, I was out at the transportation office determining if the fog was too dense to send buses out. We decided to send the buses out and a few minutes later…

Awe

Whittaker Chambers was a Soviet spy and avowed atheist who eventually received, posthumously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Ronald Reagan. He talks of his faith journey and change of worldview in his book, Witness, published in 1952. In the forward of his book, Chambers recounts his initial experience with God as a young…