Sonshine for your soul
Posted in Christian service on Apr 25th, 2012
Though it’s rare today in our country, it is still an enjoyable, remind-us-of-our-heritage thing to see hard-working farm animals helping the farmer to produce healthy crops for the market.
Those farmers — particularly those of Amish descent — realize that without those animals, crops aren’t grown and food isn’t eaten.
Their livelihood hinges on having healthy work [...]
Posted in obedience on Apr 20th, 2012
Had a conversation the other day with a man who rides his motorcycle on a local toll road yet doesn’t pay tolls.
It’s not that he’s privileged under the law.
Instead, he’s just turned his license plate holder in such a way in order to be obscured from the camera recording license plates of non-payers.
He’s gotten [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, faithfulness on Apr 19th, 2012
Among the challenging aspects of our human nature is the Velcro-like stickiness of bad memories that so often shove their way to the front of the line in our hearts and minds.
It’s no secret that psychologists say it takes seven compliments to counteract the effect of one insult.
We humans just hold onto negative statements and [...]
Posted in friendship on Apr 10th, 2012
One of the most important things a parent can do for a child is to teach him or her how to make good friends.
For there is no denying that the friendship choices a child makes as he or she grows will have a HUGE impact on the direction and destination of the child’s life.
We’ve all [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, wisdom on Apr 2nd, 2012
Many of us love dreaming and planning and pursuing new initiatives.
The anticipation of possibilities realized is quite flavorful.
We might spend time pondering the idea of buying and remodeling a larger, better-located house even though our present house is quite adequate.
We might spend loads of time planning how we’ll spend our retirement years even though we [...]
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Martin Drummond