There is a reason why grandchildren are called grand. The meaning of grand includes the following: magnificent, imposing, impressive, awe-inspiring, majestic, monumental; stately–plus. My wife and I have enjoyed watching and interacting with our 16 grandchildren, both while being born and growing up to adulthood. The meanings of grand (above) describe how we feel about…
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On Old Thing, New Meanings
I was sitting in church last Sunday listening to the speaker and he was talking about a subject that I had read over and over and heard speakers speak of it many, many times, but he had put a different twist on it. I hadn’t read the following story before to gather wisdom from it….
On Being A Child of God
We each have parents, a mother and a father who brought us into this world, gave us this clay structure that houses our spirit. We are their child; they love us and care for us, often as one of several in the family. However, most of us never think about what came before the clay?…
On Islam
Islam may have some aspects of it that are good and peaceful, but the aspects of it that are pure evil make the whole of it evil. Breitbart: reported on what was currently happening in the Middle East: “At least 150 people were beheaded yesterday by ISIS in the massacre of Deir al-Zour, including dozens…
On Spending A Little Time
I sometimes think to myself that I haven’t spent much time with one of my children. I need to call him/her and take them to dinner or do something with them. I say children but the youngest is 45 and the oldest of the six would have been sixty years old this year. He passed…
On Empathy And Eternity
This is a very difficult thought that I am attempting to put down on paper and hopefully it will never be taken in the wrong way and cause hurt and/or resentment by those who may read it. Rather, as is my intention, it will create a better understanding of the eternal nature of life and…
On God’s Humanity
Through this short thought, I am going to ‘try’ to see us, (people), the way that God sees us. God could have adopted any title that He would like but His primary choice was ‘Father,’ God, the Father. Why would He choose that title unless He were, in some way, our actual Father. We often…
On Running Away
Many people think that the threat of running away or the actual act of running away is a child’s way of getting what they want. For example; One day I was near a mother and her little three or four year old son who for some reason was distraught and angry. He said to his…
On A Glimpse Into The Eternal
I imagine that there are many people who have asked themselves, or others, “Why am I here on this earth and what is my purpose?” There could be many ways of asking the same or similar questions. I remember one hot summer day, when I was probably about nine or ten years of age, I…
On Enough
Enough is a slippery word because it means something different to every individual. It is defined as: something occurring in such quantity, quality, or scope as to fully meet demands, needs, or expectations. The only problem with that definition is that enough is determined on an individual basis because your enough is not the same as my…