February 8, 2022 - When I was a teen-ager in Center, Texas, Daddy would take us once a year to Mill Creek to a Scaly-Bark tree. The nuts were smaller and more tasty than larger hickory nuts.

“I know what it is to be in need....but have learned to be content in every situation....” Phil. 4:12

January 24, 2022 - I once talked to a lady whose life had been a combination of partying, doping and abusing alcohol… and she blamed her parents for it all. “If they’d just paid more attention to me, I wouldn’t have turned out this way.”

“Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation…” Matt. 26:41

January 10, 2021 - As we were growing up, my bothers and I spent a lot of time at Weaver’s Pond in Center, Texas. It was an ideal fishing and swimming hole and was only a ten minute walk from where we lived. The little pond was teeming with perch, bass and a considerable number of water moccasins. For several years it provided some welcome meals for our large and sometimes hungry family.

“Bodily exercise profits for a little while: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.” 1 Timothy 4:8

“God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…” John 3:16

December 13, 2021 - Pam and I constantly tell our children that we love them. We call them in New York and Texas almost daily telling them this. My Mother expressed it often to her children with letters, phone calls and cards. But in all the years I knew my Dad, he never once told me he loved me. And if my reaction to that fact was like some people I know, I’d be whining to the world how mistreated I was as a child and how it had so affected my life.