God is not planning your day or the other 7 billion people in the world either. You probably have enough trouble planning your day…never mind 7 billion others…right? Well, here’s a revelation (it shouldn’t be, but it is). God isn’t planning your day either…or all the other people on the planet. He did something much better and more complex than plotting out the lives … Read the rest…
Category Archives: Rhyme and Reason
Yeah, life these days is challenging from every corner. It’s frustrating to see so much hurt, hopelessness, and inhumanity. It’s tempting to simply gripe, complain, and yell at the world. But don’t those things just add to the problems? How about you try this on for size: Give thanks instead. Your Creator would love to hear from you. Instead Don’t try to pray away … Read the rest…
I’m sending this with brotherly love When I talk to you about where you’ll spend eternity, you can either respond with acceptance or rejection. There’s no middle ground. If you accept that I’m talking to you with brotherly love (the way God told me to), you’ll understand that I sincerely care about where you’ll be for eternity. If you want nothing to do with God, your response … Read the rest…
I’ll bet you didn’t know about a famous magazine called the Saturday Evening Post. Or if you did, I’ll bet you didn’t know it’s been around for about 300 years. Yikes…that’s even farther back than I can remember. For some reason this evening (probably because it’s Saturday) I put on my writing for kids thinking cap to come up with a quick rhyming blog … Read the rest…
Ice Cream Magic
Way, way back in the 20th century when I was but a wee lad in the old country…uh…I mean a young dude in the south…one of my favorite things in the summer was watching the ice cream magic happen. Maybe you remember something like that, too, if you’re old enough to remember the 20th century. If so, you’d know when I say ice cream … Read the rest…
You know what I say? I say, if you’re gonna daydream, daydream in blue. There’s more room for daydreamers in the color of blue because there’s more blue around the planet than any other color. I mean…have you ever seen Earth in any of those pictures taken from satellites? Everyone talks about being green. Forget that. I say blue all the way… Daydream In … Read the rest…
Do I sit around conjuring up rhymes and riddles and razzamatazz? Maybe…maybe not. Truth be told, I’m not always sitting when ideas for my writing for kids pop into my head. In fact, I was in my back yard watering the lawn today when a few lines came to me. It was just some thoughts I had about the future. Since I don’t believe … Read the rest…