If you ask children what they want to be when they grow up, you’re likely to hear, “ballerina,” “professional baseball player,” “artist,” or some other seemingly impractical response. But then something happens. We grow up. And we often put away what many consider to be childish dreams.
An Encounter with a Tennessee Spider!
Hi friends. It’s Lighten Up Monday! This clip creeps me out. I could find a snake in my sleeping bag and it wouldn’t bother me. I woke up with a porcupine in my tent. It didn’t bother me. I had a mouse run up my pant leg. It was the last trip he ever took. But if there is a …
Three Questions That Can Eliminate Bad Lions From Your Life
As we were driving to our beautiful mountain getaway in Colorado. My then three-year-old granddaughter, Jadyn, asked where our cabin was located. I said, ” Our place is located right where those five lines come down the mountain and join at the bottom.” I pointed to the lines on the mountain which are actually the avalanche shoots you see in …
5 Resolutions Empowering You to Spit in the Face of Fear and Live!
Last week Americans watched in horror and some with fascination as two young men paralyzed a city of more than a million souls. For days people huddled in their homes, mostly because authorities requested it as a strategy to smoke out the cowards who had planted bombs at the Boston Marathon, but many others huddled in fear. I am …
The Question we are Afraid to Ask
This post touches on a question we don’t want to think about. Yet life will certainly bring circumstances that force us to face it. It is a question that troubled me for a year after my granddaughter got lost in the Colorado mountain wilderness.