Losing Socks

Give them a piece of your life. I have always been more of a dog person than a cat person. I believe cats can sense that and they enjoy tormenting non-cat people. That was cemented in my brain when I was in my teens and the family cat decided to give birth to her kittens …

Helping God

Give them a sign. A few weeks ago God told Carey to buy a little sign that reads “Wait, Hope, Expect.” It is about five inches square and made of metal. She hung it from the rear view mirror of her car. It obstructs the view of the driver and, being metal, it clangs when …

The Power

Give them the Power. Carey and I went to Home Depot week before last to pick up some toilet bolt caps before the home inspector came to our house for his inspection. As we were pulling into the parking lot, Carey showed me a text message our son-in-law Jarratt had sent her that morning. It …

Donald

Give them yourself. Carey and I went to Knoxville last weekend to visit our son Nathan and his new bride Ashley. They are great and obviously very happy.   We went to church with them Sunday and got to hear Dan, the pastor who married them. We enjoyed him at the rehearsal dinner and at …

uPod

Give them the tune. We have an intercom system in our house. I sometimes enjoy listening to the radio over the whole house, but songs you really want to hear either come around too frequently or too infrequently. And the commercials can be maddening. So the intercom sat silent almost all the time. Four or …

Healing?

Pray for them. Carey and I finished reading a compilation of sermons by John G. Lake Monday. Lake (1870-1935) is one of the most renown “faith healers” in history. There are even reports that healings from his ministry were responsible for closing a hospital in his home base of Spokane, Washington. Last Thursday a very …