There is a small children’s nursery rhyme most of us learned growing up – usually in response to some bully calling us names. It first appeared approximately 1844. There are many variations but the basic is: Sticks and stones may break my bones But names (or words) will never harm me. You know what? Neurologists… Read More Sticks and Stones AND Words HURT
Do you know you can be killing your future with your mouth? As the World War II poster above states, “Loose Lips Sink Ships”. Loose lips sink ships is an idiom meaning “beware of unguarded talk”. This phrase was coined as a slogan during WWII as part of the US Office of War Information’s attempt to… Read More YOU Are Killing Your Future With Your Mouth Redux
I know I said in the last post that I was going to tell you about a mega-hail storm we experienced, but I decided to insert this one first. I was listening to our pastor’s wife a couple of services ago and she brought up something I’ve never seen before. I know you’re going to… Read More Anti-Aging Scripture
Recently, Leland and I have been reading a chapter a day from the Book of Proverbs. It has been VERY eye-opening. There are so many scriptures about how danger, trouble, hurt, distress, and the like, are NOT supposed to touch us as children of God. Yet if you look around, that certainly is not what… Read More Power for a Better Life
(Post redeux refurbished from a previous post in 2011) Angel’s are sent forth as ministering spirits to minister to heirs of salvation (think of a waiter or an attendant). As children, you have angels which are popularly called “guardian angels” but actually are just those same ministering spirits (Matt. 18:10, Ps. 34:7, Acts 12:15). They… Read More Do You Really Know About Angels?