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During those times when life wrenches from me a comfort of which I’ve become fond, and harshness disrupts and confounds me, my mind fades...

God or truth (God is truth) cannot be confined or defined by momentary human occurrences. He is greater than any one sliver of time in...

Daddy, where does God live? Well, Little Bit, that is a good question. Where do you think He lives? My friend from school, Sallie Mae,...

But it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared For those...

We may think we are being true to ourselves when we shed the constraints of traditional values and morality, but in reality, we are...

Now life in Ira Ricketts’ day demanded a certain nimbleness. There were always distractions, interests of various kinds to draw one’s...

Ira Ricketts was traveling to meet an important client one day and realized he forgot to turn the coffee maker off when he left the...

Pushing away today’s occurring’s — each minute’s demand and every daily mini-intrusion needing my attention — I make room at day’s end to...

Is there a Daniel in your life? There is, was, in mine. I have long lost contact with Daniel. Life, geography, time, and ambition...

Photo by Abhijay Patne The trip holds memories and metaphors best remembered. A bus ride up I-75 toward Sweetwater, Tennessee beckoned...

Allowing intrusion to seep through as I’m oft to do – taking a phone call I shouldn’t, saying yes when I should say no, taking on...

Taking a daily walk has become my routine. When I’m not able because either life or weather or N’s to-do-list is interfering, withdrawal...

“OK, writers. Two minutes.” AAUGH! Two minutes to write six words describing my life scared me into certain galvanic skin responses so...

I never met Emily Brown Kocis but I know her. I know her as God allows me to know his truth, and in its light, her light, God’s light...

His name was Daniel, the caddy master at Orangeburg Country Club. The title puzzled me as Orangeburg did not have caddies. But then, golf...

Undergirding the simple joys in life are the qualities of thoughtfulness and good intent. I have discovered this truth at the end of the...