The Sweet Satisfaction of Hard Work

“From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man’s hand comes back to him” (Proverbs 12:14 ESV). Saturday night, just before sundown, Shannan and I arrived back to our place in Arkansas. For my part it was with a skip in my step, a sigh of relief and gratitude in my heart to God. We had just traveled 2956 miles across Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, and then trekked back to the Natural State, completing the entire jaunt in our 1936 Chevrolet (aka The Octogenarian). If you wonder […]

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Parkland: What Do We Do With Our Pain?

“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33, ESV). Sunny South Florida is under a dark cloud in the aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. A nation, once again shocked by senseless violence, asks, “What’s this world coming to?” The pain of families and students crushed in the vice of anguish is more guttural. “’Oh my God! Oh my God!’ one student yelled over and over in one video circulating on […]

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