How does one find extraordinary holiness in ordinary moments? How does that which is such a part of the backdrop of our human experience as to be profaned take on the air of eternal significance and other worldly importance? What sets… Continue reading

I resist wearing labels such as "Conservative" or "Liberal" with an upper case "C" or "L."  It comes to surface as I hear the word,"wing" attached to directional terms such as "left" or "right."  This comes from a guy who… Continue reading

    "Monitor your own heart and motives under God and leave the rest of His servants to Him. Do not surrender your confidence to the attitudes of other people." Order from Amazon or Amazon Kindle.       Continue reading

If there is ultimate value in the world, then that value has implications. Much of this was originally posted in 2009. I have added to it and rewritten some. It bounces off an interview with Paul Tillich, with whom the… Continue reading

"It is going to take a fair dose of humility to get us through life. And humility is no stranger to confidence. They are not only compatible, but they exist in a symbiotic relationship. In other words, they feed and nurture each… Continue reading

Again, the psalmist expresses the full range of human emotion, sentiment, and prayers that can only truly be answered by divine, compassion, power, propitiation and absorption of reflexive wrath – wrath that boomerangs from God and back upon Himself. As… Continue reading

Abraham Lincoln: The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time. Malcolm S. Forbes: The best vision is insight. Theodore Roosevelt: The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick… Continue reading

There is actually a road to Success in Central California. Traveling west from Porterville on highway 190, you will soon see signs indicating that you are, in fact, on the road to Success whether you knew it or not. Life… Continue reading

  THE WOLF “Now is the Law of the Jungle—as old and true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the… Continue reading

Times are tough. You are tougher. Face the times.   Life is hard. You are resilient. Keep moving forward.   The future is uncertain. God is already there. Do not be afraid.   Hope is a rare commodity. Hope is… Continue reading