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My Sports Team

If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be? I would have a soccer team of 8-10 years old girls. They would have red uniforms with pink trim. Their socks would be red with a pink print of a girl, hands raised in victory. Team name, “The Chick Kicks.” My granddaughterContinue reading “My Sports Team”

Pride With Limits

What are you most proud of in your life? I can think of something, but it soon becomes a like playing whack-a-mole. When I think of an answer, something else raises its hand, and says, “no, me me.” I could say the same thing about things I am least proud of but where is theContinue reading “Pride With Limits”

The Concert

Music came softly through the window,A loving light showed the way,Hand and hand like brothers,The salt of life they played. The melody cut to the quick,In beautiful strings’ impression,A tingling of feeling had surfaced,With lyrics that stir compassion. Her melancholy suddenly lifted,From an evening of moody blue,Together, the shadows in rapture,An underbreath of review. MusicContinue reading “The Concert”

The Habit of a Healthy Routine

What daily habit do you do that improves your quality of life? My daily routine gives me redemption, peace and renewal. It is my comfort zone filling me with energy and confidence to have a productive day. A short outline of my routine is a good nights sleep, coffee and news updates, private bible study,Continue reading “The Habit of a Healthy Routine”

Gratitude

My first thought was of joy but as I wrote my response, I realized what I really meant was gratitude, which of course, contains healthy doses of joy. I start just about every day in grateful prayer, expressing gratitude and feeling joyful for the simplest of things – for my cup of coffee, for aContinue reading “Gratitude”

Good Health and Wellness

I pray to my creator and savior, nurture personal relationships, exercise, and eat a healthy diet, though I cheat sometimes. Interestingly, I have listed them in order of importance, which is the reverse of what it was earlier in life. What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?

Let’s Laugh Together

Eat your soup with a fork,Crumble crackers with a hammer,Teach a parrot to shout a bark,I’ll tell a joke with a stammer. Catch a ball without your glove,Shine my car to dim the glare,Land a snowflake on your tongue,Lick the floor on a dare. Make me laugh with your antics,Hang your shirt upside down,Let’s liveContinue reading “Let’s Laugh Together”

The Future

What are you most excited about for the future? I am excited and thankful for the blessing of watching my children and grandchildren grow, work, worship, and succeed. There is also an element of pain infused in each of these phases, courtesy of the darkness in this world. To watch them prosper through their pain,Continue reading “The Future”

Expressing Gratitude

Who is the audience? My children, my wife, a neighbor? Have they served me dinner, saved my life or just kindly moved my newspaper from the drive to my front porch? If the question is in regard to a higher being, Jesus in my case, the answer is simple . . . personally, quietly, inContinue reading “Expressing Gratitude”

Matthew 15:21-28

21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of Dvid, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.” 23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urgedContinue reading “Matthew 15:21-28”