Always look to The Son

  This morning I was out walking my dog, Marley.  All of a sudden we hear this piercing tapping noise.  This startled Marley and so she sat down in the grass along the road.  I looked up to the right and saw a red-bellied woodpecker tapping on the metal part of a...

Final Vacation

The start of our family vacation to what most consider paradise was the start of a dear friend’s final vacation to true Paradise. Our hearts ached, yet again, when we received the news of a close friend of eighteen years, Paul Conrad.  Donald Paul Conrad was a man who...

Don't hold a grudge. Ugh.

“Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.” Leviticus 19:18 Ok, God.  You got me! After a conversation last night before bed, I woke up feeling a little bitterness towards a couple of...

Don't be upset with yourself

  Recently we were staying at a hotel on the east coast in Amelia Island, Florida. I woke up early, stretched, saw the time, and thought to myself “the sun should be rising soon”.  I was all comfy in the covers so I just lay in bed dozing in and out of sleep, and...

A Tangled Situation

The other day while we were fishing, Hunter (my eldest) rapidly threw his fishing line out. He ended up getting what is called a “wind knot”. Tim told him to get the ChapStick ® and apply it to the knot.  This technique guided the string out of its tangled situation....