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I Write Better When I Pray.

Dear Reader Many of the things we do in life can be automatic. Life chores like eating, laundry, reading, and going to work are done without much thought, and without a lot of dedicated prayer. Even going to church becomes a normal routine that we can do without stress. But some things we do are always a struggle, or require such intention that we have to pray about them. Occasionally it’s a big decision, like selling or buying a house or changing jobs. Often certain relationships drive us to...

over 3 years ago • 2 min read

Dear Reader When I was working my booth at a county fair last week, I had the pleasure of meeting a young aspiring author ("H"). She was at the fair with her grandparents and they were browsing the various booths on their way to buy tickets for the carnival rides. When she found out I was the author of the books I was selling, she got really excited. I mean REALLY EXCITED. “I want to write books!” she gushed. Her grandmother had to take a picture of us together. Then they got back in line for...

over 3 years ago • 2 min read

Dear Reader, Do you have a favorite aspect of God’s creation? Is there something that just strikes you as wondrous? A couple weeks ago I blogged about 9 books that helped our family. One of those was a parenting book by Andrew Murray, a Christian author, pastor, and missionary who died in 1917. He and his wife raised 8 children, and he wrote over 200 books. This book, Raising Your Children for Christ, sat on our bookshelf for years after I first studied it, until I looked for it to reference...

over 3 years ago • 3 min read

Dear Reader, Christmas is three days away! Are you ready? Me, neither. Do you wonder about the real meaning of Christmas? I like to remind people that the main reason for Christmas is Easter! Without Easter, we have no reason for Christmas. But without Christmas, we can’t have Easter. I wrote a blog about it last week. Click Easter in December to read it. My goal for each Christmas season is to enjoy it more than the year before. Sometimes it’s easy because the previous year was awful. Other...

almost 4 years ago • 3 min read

Dear Reader Are you wearing a mask? Are you smiling behind it? As the pandemic mask mandates continue, I find myself strangely fence-straddling. The two sides of the fence can be categorized as “Oh, my! We’re in a pandemic, so we need to do everything the ‘experts’ tell us to do and follow all government mandates to save lives!” and “No way! I’m not giving up my right to live independently just because some ‘expert’ says so.” There is a lot of room on the continuum between these two extremes,...

almost 4 years ago • 4 min read