Is that really what I saw? So many times we see things others don’t or vice versa. Some may look at the same object or scene and see entirely different images or circumstances. Art, especially abstract, can create all forms of visual thoughts to many different observers. What I see may make no sense to […]
Find a penny pick it up… What does luck have to do with anything? There must be something to it since so many people wish you good luck, call you a lucky duck, aren’t you a lucky one and you seem to have the luck of the Irish. May luck be on your side. People […]
Blessings For a man who has two daughters, five grandchildren and recently a great granddaughter, this Proverb resonates with me. Grandfathers were originally referred to as old men. Seems appropriate. A numerous progeny was believed to be a great blessing to a man; to have his table surrounded with children, as olive plants; to be […]
Dads, what is your view of a ‘blessing’? No, not the one over a meal! A personal, maybe spiritual blessing? Probably, if you have never received one it would be a foreign term to you. Or maybe you did. What was that like; do you remember at least one, maybe more? Did it have an […]
The Blessing When someone I just met tells me to ‘have a blessed day’, I know I’m most likely speaking to a believer. There is something very spiritual about the word; blessed, or blessing. Many families, mostly Christian, pray a blessing at mealtime. Rare to see that in public today. But pronouncing blessings is good […]
A doves nest Thanks for the encouraging words today on Freedom and acknowledging God’s glory, not man’s. I have been thinking about you this week and Abiding Fathers as I look out my window and see a Momma mourning dove and a Poppa dove taking care of the little ones that have recently hatched. This is about the third […]
Being a father When you have a speaker at one of the Fathers Forum events, you assume that person is an expert. You expect that the person has gone through training to become knowledgeable. But I have fallen many times as a father. I have gotten back up by the grace of our Lord, Jesus […]
Arthur and Betty ‘Cookie’ WOODPILES…are something virtually every person living is familiar with. I first experienced them as a very young boy as the young’uns were usually selected to bring in a log or two for the stove for cooking or heating. Anyone with a log-burning fireplace has one. Some are neatly stacked, while others […]
Technology vs. Paper Technological advances are impressive and surprising to me. From time to time, I stop to see the new cell phones, new computers and new tablets. But that’s it, no more than just admiration and amazement. I am one of those living beings who still insists on reading the printed book or taking […]
Friendship Recently, as I left a coffee meeting with my friend, Kevin, I thought of how grateful I am to have such a friendship, and how randomly it began. Five years ago a mutual friend in North Carolina called and told me his friend (Kevin) was moving to my neck of the woods, and asked […]