All my life, growing up as a child in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, I thought that if someone was accused of something that they were indeed “innocent until proven guilty.” In fact, I can remember as children we often used this phrase in jest when someone was giving … Read More
Pulling Weeds
This afternoon late, I took a little break and decided to go out and play in my garden/yard for a while. One of my flowerbeds was just full of Johnson grass and weeds. As I began to pull those weeds, and some of them were just plain old stubborn I … Read More
Rapture Practice
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. I Corinthians 15:51 (KJV) I always smile when I think of the following story, as told by our pastor some … Read More
I Could’a Been a . . . . Widow
It was nine years ago today. Yet, I remember it as if it were only yesterday. I lay there in my cozy bed, listening to the rain on the metal roof of our big old Georgia home. Jim had left about an hour before to drive from Jasper to Cleveland, … Read More
Spring Break Week!
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. (James 1:17 NIV) Ah the memories that the words “spring break” bring to mind. For a good number of years, I would suppose twelve or more … Read More