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Fifty Ways to Be a Lover!

Someone asked me what words I want to be spoken at my funeral.  My first response was that I want someone to say….. “He moved!  He’s alive!”  But I doubt that will happen. I think I would want the people who knew me best to say, “He was a lover!” Not in a lover in the classic sense of a …

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What do you Say on Father’s Day?

Today as I drank my morning coffee, I was reminded that it is Fathers Day. The tears came suddenly as sweet memories of my dad flooded my soul.   I decided to re-post a blog I did six months ago.  I would be very honored if you would read it.  Then, if your dad is still living, say the words, “I …

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This is the Reason I will Endure one more Security Screening.

Sometimes I ask myself why I leave my family every week to endure the hassle of travel. Occasionally I get weary and wonder why would I eat junk food and sleep in lonely hotel rooms in order to stand on a stage and deliver the one gift God has given me.  Then I meet a girl like Kallai, and I …

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Something better than excellence!

I am on a bus headed for a Compassion project in Fortaleza, Brazil. Marco, a handsome, tanned man with wispy white hair has just boarded the bus.  Marco has labored on the behalf of poor children in Brazil for 27 years. He talks so fast the interpreter can barely keep up. In broken English and with a face creased with …