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.