Life and Latex Paint

Latex paint is one of life’s modern miracles. It is mixed in water, you use water to clean it up, and when it is dry you use water clean it off.

Life is a lot like latex paint. Paint is great where it is supposed to be. Life is great when we do what we are supposed to do and become what we are supposed to become.

Leading With My Knee

There I was face down on the ground staring at the dirt three inches from my nose with a sharp stabbing pain in my left chest, and a dull ache in my left leg.

I laid very still for 15 to 30 seconds assessing my physical condition, nothing seemed to be broken, all my parts moved on command. Then I turned about half over and started removing the motorcycle from my left leg. That was when I discovered a rip in my pants and a sharp pain coming from my left knee cap; a few seconds before my knee cap was covered with skin, but now it was white gristle and oozing plasma.

Almighty God

When I was growing up my dad loved to tell stories about how when I was a baby he would tease me as I was nursing. He would recount the events with love in his eyes and happiness on his face. It seems that about two thirds of the way through my meal he would flip mothers nipple from my mouth and then watch me dive for it as he acted like it was his turn.

The Garbage Truck

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

Poverty & Wealth

I was consulting with a feedyard, the manager was gone and I was working at his desk. The office was spacious, very well appointed with a couch and small conference table at the far end.

Three computers were within arms reach on my right. Two of them were reporting the commodity markets tick by tick and the third provided management information about the yard as it was happening.

This is an outstanding testimony from Tony Snow

This is an outstanding testimony from Tony Snow, President Bush's Press Secretary, and his fight with cancer. Commentator and broadcaster Tony Snow announced that he had colon cancer in 2005. Following surgery and chemo-therapy, Snow joined the Bush Administration in April 2006 as press secretary. Unfortunately, on March 23, 2007 , Snow, 51, a husband and father of three, announced the cancer had recurred, with tumors found in his abdomen,- leading to surgery in April, followed by more chemotherapy. Snow went back to work in the White House Briefing Room on May 30, but has resigned since, "for economic reasons," and to pursue " other interests."

It needs little intro... it speaks for itself.

The Greatest Profession

When I’ve been asked what I’ve professed to do, I have given many answers: student, serviceman, salesman, economist, college professor, consultant, businessman, and now retired. Which profession, of all possible professions, is the greatest?

I think the apostle Paul had the greatest profession,

The Great Exchange!

We consummated the business deal we'd been working on for months. Both parties finally agreed on a price where we were comfortable. Business deals must be equitable or there could be no commerce.

God's business deals amaze me!

Freedom of the Sky

We boarded the plane on the third call, the stewardesses closed the doors, did their act, and the captain announced, "We have been cleared for departure".

Thirty seconds after leaving the ground we were solid in the clouds. I was looking forward to breaking out into the sunshine at 25,000 and stretching my eyes by staring out at the white forever. We had been in New York for four days and I was ready for a change of scenery.

Faith is ....

There are a set of words that stretch my mind. Faith is one of these words. Over the years I have developed a working definition for most of my mind stretching words and here is my working definition for faith.

"Faith is accepting someone else's description of my current circumstances and acting on that description as if it is true."

Money can’t buy it

Esther is the only book in the Bible that don’t use the name of God, or record any prayers to God.

The main character of the book is King Ahasuerus. About 450 BC he was one of the world’s strongest leaders. He lived in what is now Iran and he ruled 127 provinces stretching from India to Ethiopia,.

What is important?

An experience from my working years....

By 7 AM each morning I try to be in the shower, to get to work by 7:30 +/-. As a general rule I'm up 2 to 3 hours before this, when I can do some Bible reading, pray some, decide on the important things for the day, and get some work done that I cannot do during the press of daily activities. This is my most productive time of the day and I try not to use it for busy work.

Running out of Sunsets

Running out of Sunsets

Baxter Black is a DVM in the Southwest that has turned from veterinarian to self-styled poet and philosopher. I recently listened to one of his poems describing an old cowboy that had lived an illustrative life but now he was 'running out of sunsets'.

Don’t Shoot Me

Don’t Shoot Me

At our local Texaco connivance store I was stooped over cleaning out my car before putting the required 75 cents into the car-vacuum when I heard this voice behind me say, “Don’t shoot me”. I turned around to see a slim black man in his middle 30’s, with drawn facial features, carrying a small blue back pack by one strap slung over his right shoulder, looking at me with a mixture of fear, hope, and expectation.