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Abundance – Defining How We Define It

It seems there’s been an evolutionary warping of the most rancid sort where we’ve come to define “abundance” as having whatever it is that we feel we need. Sadly, abundance today appears to imply the possession of a liberal quantity of whatever it is that we deem important, or desirous, or bright and shiny, or voguish, or trendy, or whatever might … [Read more...]

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep – Mom and Dad’s Bedtime Prayer

It goes something like this, “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. God bless Mommy, Daddy, Mark, Brett and Granny. Amen.” Simple. I recited that prayer thousands of times as kid. It comes to my memory today as clearly as it did those many thousands of … [Read more...]

Shep – To Run With a Limp

We all have a limp that relentlessly dogs our steps, causing us at times to be dog-tired as we work against our limp in order to keep our lives sufficiently erect. For some of us, our limp is so slight and relatively minor that it’s really quite difficult to detect. For others of us it’s blatantly obvious, causing us to lurch through life with … [Read more...]

Dad’s Workbench – There’s a Tool for That

“There’s a tool for that.” I can’t tell you how many times I heard my Dad say that. And in the oddity of life, no matter what task we had to do there was a tool for it; not just some tool but a specific tool. Someone, somewhere, at some time had faced whatever challenge we were facing and had designed a tool to get it done with a fair amount of … [Read more...]

Liberty – It Isn’t Something that ‘Just Is’

The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it. We claim liberty as our God-given right, and we vigorously decry the unjust desecration of it when we feel that it’s being violated. Too many of us view liberty as something that ‘just is,’ and too few see it as something that ‘is’ only because someone, somewhere was … [Read more...]