THOUGHTS TO START YOUR DAY!

There are paths carved all over our woods. From my kitchen window I see them. When I walk along these rough trails I smile, knowing this is the work of my boys - young arms and sholders and determiniation all bent together to create something visible. Paths which take them not very far, but path-making which takes them worlds away. They clear these trails not for their mother, but for their boyhood. These brothers forage through the wilderness of our few acres, perhaps imagin

Cammy's three-year old son, Gavin, sat at the breakfast table with a bowl of oatmeal in front of him. Multitasking, Cammy left the room saying, "Gavin, Mommy wants you to stay in your chair and eat your oatmeal while I put on my makeup." A few minutes later, Cammy came back in the kitchen, saw the empty table and heard Gavin's voice say, "Open you mouth for a big bite!" Following the voice into the living room, she arrived just in time to see Gavin pushing the close button on

How does a person go from being the wisest, richest, most powerful and popular person on the planet to full-blown depression? Ask King Solomon. He made the trip and wrote a book about the journey and the lessons learned along the way. He called it Ecclesiastes. And, amazing as it may sound, God included the book in His Book, the Bible. When King David’s son, Solomon, became king of Israel, God appeared to him with an amazing, ‘too good to be true’, offer. In I Kings 3 we read