I love this. Just read it today. "Truth is tough." — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., poet, 1858 ain't that the truth?

Everyone knows the beloved poem that begins with " Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." But did you know who wrote this and when? Do you know the rest of the story? This very famous peom was written by Clement C. Moore on Christmas Eve in 1822. I just found out his great-great-niece lives near me. This poem is still very popular even tho it's nearing the second century mark. It's definitely a classic. Moo...

Whenever I find myself at a pity party for one, I try to focus on someone who has it alot worse than I. A friend of mine recently confided in me that she found herself at that same party one day when Joni E. Tada came on the radio. Joni has been paralyzed from the neck down since the 1970's when she was 17. Her joy and peace about her condition and life itself is very contagious. Her love for God and others is supernatural and awesome. When my friend heard her sweet voice on the radio d...

My son wrote this as an assignment. Not sure who will like this more, the women or the men! It’s a problem that affects all Americans, no, affects all humanity worldwide. It is a predicament that spreads from generation to generation that puzzles mankind. It is the ultimate riddle for man- what to do with your woman. For centuries man has debated, not on how to treat a woman of favor, who our mothers have always taught to treat with respect and honor, but instead with how to d...

I was cleaning out my son's closet. Well actually he did this at Christmas time and left me two boxes of stuff he didn't want. As I was looking thru these boxes I pulled out a couple of interesting books to peruse. One in particular has had me, tea in one hand and this book in another busy for the last hour or so. It's an old book fillled with short stories, poetry and quips from well known authors, Poets, Presidents and other greats I've recogized from time past. Names like Robert Br...

We all have something we've read or heard that profoundly affected us one way or the other somewhere along the way. I have a long list but this poem especially spoke to me one day a long time ago. I have no idea where it came from or how I came to find it. It was written, I heard, by a football coach that had lost a player to death before he was able to share the gospel with him. As he mourned the death of this player, I imagine he must have mourned the lost opportunity as well. My ...

Today in church our Pastor was talking about choices. In this case he spoke of salvation. Do we choose our salvation or did God choose our salvation? Did we pick him or did he choose us? Are we vessels of grace or vessels of wrath? Got me to thinking. While we do have choices in life, there are also many things we have no control over. We didn't pick the time, place or circumstance of our birth. We did not pick our birth parents or siblings. For the most part we didn't even choos...