Eternity Wedding Rings…vary greatly, depending on the preferences of the giver and receiver. They are also referred to as wedding bands. Joanne slipped a plain white gold one on my finger December 27, 1958. I love it because I love her. It’s actually the only item of jewelry I wear. Her ring has a diamond. […]
Time NOTE: Attention deficit disorder is a legitimate term. However, after observing and working with children for twenty years (and having a child of my own labeled with ADD) I learned and experienced ways to overcome and conquer it on behalf of my son and other children. First, I examined myself. After doing so I […]
Four stage process How many times have you faced a tough parenting decision and wished you had a tool or process for helping you make that decision? In Engage the Fox, authors Jen Lawrence and Larry Chester describe a four-stage process that, while taught to students of business to help them make better team-based decisions, […]
Overwhelmed Do you ever feel like your whole life is spinning out of control, everything’s just slipping away? Your kids are growing up way too fast, the career choice has consumed you, and maybe the relationship with your bride and sweetheart is not what it used to be. The wheels appear to be falling off […]
Seeing the truth Greetings Friends and Family! “Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead.” -C.S. Lewis Since I have written last, the emotions have swung from one side of the pendulum to the other, and then back again, but in a different way. A few days after I wrote […]
Let God do the carrying I am struggling in finding the adequate words to describe an experience that is beyond words, in fact, beyond anything we can find in this world… Since I have been in Rwanda I have been asking God to transform the knowledge that He has given me about who He is, […]
A special gift I confess, at times I feel like a complete failure in the area of prayer. A few years after starting Letters from Dad, my wife, Carolyn, threw a big family Father’s Day luncheon at our home. At the end of the meal my oldest daughter, Holley, stood up and declared “Dad, we didn’t buy […]
Playing ball Today I got the opportunity to bring out the one baseball and two baseball gloves that I brought from home. I introduced the sport I love the most to my host family, who had never heard of the sport of baseball before. This was one of those moments in life that I will […]
Ashes Everyone has at one time built or at least spent time beside a campfire. Either a family outing; a scout, hunting or fishing trip; maybe at a camp. Some people today build a fire in a pit in their back yard. Remember the feeling as you stood close by, warming your hands or your […]
Daily practice “You go on and play with the dollhouse. I’m going in and pray with my daddy.” That’s what Kyle heard and experienced recently. He was in his room having his morning time with the Lord. His daughter Chloe, a kindergartener, had a friend over to spend the night. They got up and were […]