Psalm 119:105 “Gidap! Hey, you! Gidap!” That is what you are supposed to say to get a horse moving, isn’t it? But this old brown mare did not seem to understand the same kind of language I had heard cowboys in old black and white western movies use as I was growing up. This horse [...]
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GIDAP!
Posted in Direction in life, Humor, Outdoors on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDING SAD
Posted in Direction in life, Hope, Spiritual on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Psalm 105:43 “But they sound so sad! Don’t they sound that way to you, Dad?” My daughter and her husband had recently moved to a new city and the noise of Air Force jet fighter aircraft taking off on a regular basis, only a few hundred yards from the doorway of the military housing unit [...]
YOU WANT IT COLD? . . . TURN UP THE HEAT!
Posted in Direction in life, Hope, Spiritual on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Judges 20:11 I was acquainted with a nice couple who lived in an older home which had a modern gas furnace used to heat the house during the cold months of the year. In those months of summer when the heat in the deep valley in which they lived became almost unbearable, they would retreat [...]
THE TRAIL IS MARKED WELL
Posted in Direction in life, Outdoors, Spiritual on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Proverbs 3:5-6 “Where are you headed?” the husky, bearded man asked as we stood gazing out over the magnificent vista all about us. We were on a small promontory which allowed us to view the rugged mountainous country surrounding us. This time of year, late summer, there were only a few spots where snow still [...]
The R Word Has Struck!
Posted in Direction in life, Family, Humor on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Early this morning I was seated in my living room staring out through the sliding doors at the beginnings of a day still blanketed in darkness. As my gaze wandered across the black landscape, looking at the multitude of sparkling lights which seemed to give promise of some life in the cities which hugged the [...]
THE TRAIL IS MARKED WELL
Posted in Direction in life, Outdoors on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Where are you headed?” the husky, bearded man asked as we stood gazing out over the magnificent vista all around us. We were standing on a small promontory which allowed us to view the rugged mountainous country all around us. This time of year, late summer, there were only a few spots where snow still [...]
SILENCE
Posted in Direction in life, Outdoors, Spiritual on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
SILENCE I was seated out on the back deck of our home, early in the summer, having a real difficult time concentrating on things related to all the work that I needed to get done. I wasn’t being too successful. I have learned over the years that for me to be most effective in getting [...]
