I am up early this morning to try to clear something up with each of you. I learned late last night from a longtime blog reader that the speech by Mike DeWine, governor of Ohio, was a controversial one for some homeschooling families in Ohio. I appreciate her for letting me know. I'm sorry if my ... View Post

The river that is closest to our house is the Roaring River. When I went wading in it recently with some of our grandchildren, the bravest one and I walked out into the middle. The water was fresh and cool and gentle that day--nothing roaring about it. When we first moved here, I wondered at the ... View Post

I remember the summer of 1990 when Ray and I wondered how our children would be educated that August. I listened to Christian radio and I listened to those little white plastic things that had spools of magnetic tape inside them. Do any of you remember those? They were called cassette ... View Post

A verse that keeps coming to mind lately is this one: Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Romans 12:21 Let's do that. Let's not concentrate so much on the evil that can make us afraid. Let's concentrate on the good that we can proactively do. And let's think of how we can ... View Post

Most of the leaders that Jesus encountered wanted to argue. When Jesus got around them, the scene was like a press conference: "Hey, what do you think about this? Why do you do that? Why do your disciples do this?" In Matthew 12:10, the Pharisees asked Jesus, "Is it lawful to heal on the ... View Post