Patient Love
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_1527" align="alignleft" width="232" caption="Charcoal drawing by Bob O'Neill. He's now a volunteer at Toledo Hosptial. A great guy!"][/caption] Love and patience, that's what Diann needs to exhibit toward me many a time. The other day I didn't handle a ...
Out and about Doing Good
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In the Family Circus cartoon Billy was often featured in a map-type drawing of his little world in which a dotted line plotted his meandering course from point A to point B. What if someone were to plot out ...
The Enlightening Word
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Sleep evaded me last night, probably didn't find it until abut midnight. Then I awoke at 4:15 and sleep had already left me for the night. At 11:00 last night I got up and searched for a psalm to read. ...
Security
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Within a short drive of Refuge Ranch in Mexico, where our daughter Julie and her family live, lie the ruins of an old hacienda. It was probably at its full glory in the 1700s or there about. It must have ...
Poster Message I Created
Friday, November 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Auschwitz concentration camp survivor Viktor Frankl wrote, "Just as the small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it, likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicaments and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is ...
Hearing vs. Listening
Friday, November 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Humor me on this. Try taking just ten seconds for this experiment. What do you hear? Give it your full attention. What are you hearing right now? Remember, ten seconds. Shhhh! Just listen. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. ...
Good News!
Thursday, November 12th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"Do you want the good news or the bad news first?" What a question! Just give me the good news, of course I'll be miserably curious (and worried) if I don't let you give me the bad news too! It's interesting ...
Good from the Broken
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The shattered bowl you see pictured here is one of 380 images I have for sale on iStockphoto. I was drying dishes and dropped the bowl, breaking it into the two pieces. I decided to photograph it. The image was ...
Healthy Fear Born of Respect
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »[caption id="attachment_1471" align="alignleft" width="169" caption="My father when he was a young man in the Army"][/caption] My father was a six foot four inches tall Iowa farmer. He was of thin build but he was strong! I don't think I feared him, ...
The “Scarcity Assumption”
Friday, November 6th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The man shuffled into Starbucks, his hand grasping the left hip pocket-area of his trousers, pulling up the left leg of his worn slacks, making it a full three inches shorter than the other. His coat collar was ...
