My wife and I recently returned from a trip to California to visit our daughter, her husband, and their children. My grandchildren are all beautiful and sweet. I wish we lived closer. Our other grandchildren who live close to us are also wonderful. We get to see them more often. We get to see our other children more often. (more…)

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My car is burning through oil faster than five foolish virgins. (more…)

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I’m thinking quite a bit about graduations this week. My niece just graduated from High School on Wednesday. Hard to believe the baby I held in my arms  before I left for my mission is going to be a freshman in college studying nursing. I guess it’s pretty obvious I’m proud of my niece. Her graduation has brought up a lot of thoughts and feelings for me this last week. Not only about high school and college graduation but other life events as well.

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…I know that my redeemer lives. It’s always been a favorite hymn of mind and last night or early this morning as I reflected on the text it seemed an answer to prayer.

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In the ten years this site has been up, it’s gone through a lot of changes. The invention of blogs and the availability of free blog software has really put the site on the map. Before, getting to stuff was difficult. (more…)

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Sometimes I am a slow learner. Sometimes? Maybe actually quite a lot of the time. There are times when I’m so sure of what the answer will be and know that it’s going to be really complicated to get to the correct end result. This week I had such an experience. And you know what? I was wrong!

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Some days are really terrific and really exhausting. Some days are just really awful and exhausting and leave you feeling really down and even depressed. Then there are days that offer both kinds of exhaustion and it’s hard to know what to make of them. It is at such times when I really long for peace, comfort and quiet. Not just any quiet though, the quiet of Christ. (more…)

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I wrote this about an event happened a few months ago. But as I think about it, the ideas of persevering and enduring to the end as well as finding hope are still relevant. We live in a world where we have to work hard and sweat and toil, and sometimes it seems the fruit of our labors are merely pipe dreams that we may never see. But they are real. Sometimes it takes more hard work to get to them. (more…)

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I always feel sad when I come to the realization that some people who have called themselves friends were doing little more than tolerating me. Tolerance is a good thing, but I really prefer to be liked. (more…)

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….Do not pick it up. This my friends is an object lesson.

My parents and I spent the evening at my sister’s house. In addition to a husband, two children, and two golden retrievers my sister also has a Flemish Giant rabbit as a house pet. Flemish Giants are evidently good house pets because they are able to be trained, they love petting, they learn to come when called, etc. When full grown it will be around 21 pounds and about as big as a small/medium sized dog. Presently, Bartley is about 5 months old and weighs about 10 pounds. And yes he is unbelievably cute and cuddly. There in lies the problem. I am allergic to rabbits. But he was out of his pen, hopping around and just being very cute and I couldn’t resist the urge to pick him up and pet him. He was more than happy to oblige. I was sneezing and my eyes were itching for the rest of the evening and had to borrow a shirt from my brother-in-law. I wonder sometimes, if a rattle snake were cute and cuddly would I pick it up as well?

Sometimes I think Satan is like that. He presents us with temptation, that is to cute and cuddly to pass up. It’s great in the moment, but leaves us sorry in the end. So dear friends, if it’s unbelievably cute and cuddly and you know it’s not something you should do….Please, PLEASE, For your own safety and protection, STEP AWAY FROM THE BUNNY! Stepping off my soapbox now and making a beeline for the antihistamines.

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