My mom was not an evangelist. She wasn’t an apologist. And she was never a missionary or even someone who stayed active in a local church. But if anyone ever asked how she could believe that Jesus is a risen savior, she would just quote Henry. I heard her say, more than once, “Because He lives within my heart.” Yeah, Henry wrote a song … Read the rest…
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I’ve talked about Nilsson, a songwriter favorite of mine, before. He was a popular singer with some very catchy songs. One of my favorite songs by him was called “Without You.” And the main line of the chorus said, “Can’t live, if living is without you.” If I tell you that the song reminds me of the building blocks of DNA, you might think … Read the rest…
“If matter’s all there is, then nothing really matters.” I’ve said that many times over the years. And for a very good reason. Because you are the only you. And the enormous amount of information found in just one of your trillions of cells shows how true that is as it reveals your unique story. Yeah, truth proves that you are the only you. … Read the rest…
Way back in the middle of the 20th century, when I was a kid, they really were simpler times here in America. and I was actually a great example of that. Because I was the kind of kid that, when my parents or grandparents put me to bed and said go to sleep, I would do that pretty quickly. They didn’t even have to … Read the rest…
The first line of the song is all it takes. Sleep my love, and peace attend thee. Yeah, just those 7 words in the first line. And, immediately, my time travel machine transports me back to the eighth grade. And when I hear the rest of the first verse, I see the 13 and 14 year old version of me. Working, for hours and … Read the rest…
I’m gonna share some homeschool inspiration with you. Maybe it won’t thrill you the way it does me. But I think it should. Because it’s encouraging to see more parents picking up on the despicable things being regurgitated in public schools. I found this homeschool inspiration in a blurb on X. The info is about Colorado, where I was born and lived for decades. … Read the rest…
Here are the lyrics about the one-of-a-kind horse you’ll only find in this song and a kid’s imagination. The Peppermint Pony I cast my gaze into the bright sky That slowly fades into the night sky. Stars like sparkling candy twinkle in my mind’s eye. My pony’s red with a white stripe. We’re riding down through a snow pipe. Snowflakes flicker around me; the … Read the rest…