Recently, while at our family’s Thanksgiving celebration, I watched as my grandchildren ran around the house chasing each other and playing games in the exact same way my children once did. It’s a miracle that everyone survives, there are over fifty that gather on Starla’s side of the family. This […]

Starla and I were watching a movie the other night. In the movie, a grandfather put his eleven year-old granddaughter behind the wheel of his old pick-up and said, “You drive.” She responded, “I don’t know how to drive!” “Well, this is how you learn,” he replied. I looked over at […]

A great boxing legend recently passed away. Muhammed Ali was no doubt an exceptional boxer. While I may not agree with everything he stood for in his life, I respect him as a great athlete. He is attributed with the quote “Don’t count your days, make your days count.” I […]

“We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.” Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull That’s a profound statement. I know most of us feel invincible and we think we will live forever. But there is a time […]

In the aftermath of Category 4 Hurricane Harvey, that made landfall on the Texas Coast, August 25th, 2017, we have seen many things. We have seen wind damage, floods, destruction, devastation and even death. One week after the storm hit, we still see the ripple effects of nature’s impact. People […]

Have you ever felt like you were being swallowed up by a gigantic wave crashing over you? Have ever dreamed you were falling and would never hit bottom? Have you ever been so overwhelmed that you could not seem to catch your breath? Overwhelm = “feeling completely overcome in mind […]

Our culture has accepted two very unfortunate lies. The first is, if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is, to love someone, you must agree with everything they believe or do. Neither of these are true. We must be willing to disagree without […]

In Basel, Switzerland each year the good protestant townspeople have a festival in which they all don masks and go through the city doing things and going places they would never consider doing/going under normal circumstances. The mask, which veiled their identity emboldened them to do these things. One year, […]

Take Off The Mask Many people throughout history have worn masks. The Lone Ranger Batman The Joker Deadpool Wolverine Darth Vader Spider Man Iron Man Flash Captain America The Phantom of The Opera Zorro We all wear masks. The question is… What masks do you wear?  Sunday Morning mask- Where regardless of how […]

Every Fall, in late September and early October, my family and I look forward to attending the great State Fair of Texas. We all meet together and like Moses and the children of Israel we attempt to navigate our large family through the mass of people and hit all of […]