Healthy life. Peaceful life. Wealthy life. Joyful life. Do any (or all) of those describe you in your life? If not, my first question is: Do you love your neighbor after you love yourself first? Yeah, I said after you love yourself first. I started thinking about something I wrote somewhere around 10 years ago after I read the second half of Paul’s letter … Read the rest…
I love wordplay. I love alliteration. And I love juxtaposed metaphors and impossible phraseology. I love working with words. And I love the one true, living, loving, creative God who gave me the language I can manipulate. Take a word like – Phoenix. In English, it’s not pronounced at all like it looks. How cool. And today that word popped up on my linguistic … Read the rest…
Of course, I don’t know about you, on this subject, but I know when I was a kid. I certainly would’ve enjoyed more unschooling activities. And I say more because I actually did enjoy a lot of unschooling activities. The problem was they were at home. But I still had to go to school. For actual school activities and curriculum. Yeah, I am, as … Read the rest…
I remember a guy named Mike who took issue with my Christian faith. And he let me know that on my Facebook page. He’s an example of something that goes on probably every hour of every day. The very people who preach tolerance and diversity are almost always the ones who love to pick fights with, and have no tolerance for, Christians. Why? Because … Read the rest…
Every day has challenges. And challenges don’t play favorites. They happen to the rich and poor, the beautiful and ugly, the short and tall, the fat and thin, and the old and young. Hopefully, you realize that you gotta face those challenges head on. Yeah, you can run headlong into them with your eyes wide open, or you can try to sleepwalk around. But … 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…
You can’t live without love. Oh sure, you can exist. But you can’t live. And your existence will be an exercise in futility at best…or a dark. lonely place at worst. Why go there, when it’s so easy to just let love live? So how do you let love live? You nurture it, watch it grow, and give it away as much as you … Read the rest…