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Today is World Humanitarian Day!  Find out how you can help…

I still think this is one of the best songs written in the last few decades.  I never get tired of listening to it.  Hope it blesses you.

Nothing lasts forever. You need to remind yourself of this when you are up at 2, 3, 4, 5 a.m. with a crying newborn or a baby that has an ear infection. You also should think about it when you have “terrible toddlers” who want to say “No!” to everything and throw occasional screaming-on-the-floor temper tantrums and…

So… I have this bad habit of waking up around 4:30 a.m. and lying there and thinking, “I’ve only got another hour of sleep, I’ve only got another hour of sleep…gotta get back to sleep…”  You get the picture. It’s 4:33 and here I sit.  I decided I might as well get up–why waste precious…

Did you ever think about how the words that come out of your mouth affect people’s lives? It’s a funny thing… How often, in the course of dealing with your children do you hear yourself saying something like this: “Don’t ride your bicycle too fast…”  “Don’t stick that marble up your nose…”Don’t jump in that…

Every so often, in the middle of the crazy world we live in, you have to stop and take a silliness break and laugh your head off.  The video clip below helped me do that this morning. I find that if I don’t take happiness moments here and there, I can get so dragged down…

This Marine was a friend of a friend’s daughter (belonged to a Bible Study with them)…and that’s as close as I’ve personally been to one of these brave men who have been lost…Rest in Jesus’ arms, SSgt Lucas–Your battle is over. Home Leon H. Lucas Jr. Sept. 20, 1978 — Aug. 1, 2011 SSgt. Leon…

This is not something you will typically see on this blog.  I’m more interested in posting about my stated topics of traditional family values and stories of heroism, but I found this video so refreshing, I just had to post it. Don’t get me wrong…I’m very involved in and concerned about what is going on…

There is so much sadness with the loss of our brave SEALS, pilots and soldiers on Saturday.  Yet, even in the midst of their pain, family members are speaking out about their faith. An article from CNN reporter Alan Duke says: “One of the SEALS who was killed was Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn ‘wouldn’t want to leave…

THIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM A POST I WROTE LAST YEAR ON MY OTHER BLOG.  THOUGHTS ON HEROISM…  Sometime, I know I may sound like I have a “Pollyanna-ish” view of the people who stand in the gap for us. I have been know to call them “heroes”. I have often talked about the sacrifices…
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