It's amazing how many twists and turns we travel in life searching for personal significance. We can accept occasional anonymity when giving to charity or in playing a behind-the-scenes role, but we do not want our entire lives to be anonymous. The idea that life, or precisely my life, never achieved anything of significance - that one's dreams, it turns out, were mostly unattainable illusions - is the closest thing to death we can experience while still appearing alive. In c

POWERFUL ACCURATE WORDS!!!!! Marco Rubio Politics has made us crazy!! .@marcorubio Powerful words from then Senator Marco Rubio on the Senate floor. “I think politics has made us crazy. Everybody in this country has lost their minds on politics, and we have forgotten that America isn’t a government. America isn’t a president. America isn’t a Congress. Let me tell you what America is. America is your family. America is your faith. America is your community. That’s America.” He

I've been in the garden observing how the wheat and the tares grow together, and it’s quite a fascinating experience, filled with lessons and laughter. The juxtaposition of these two plants serves as a metaphor for life itself, where good and bad often coexist side by side, each thriving in its own way. LOL But it's quite a task to keep it bright and clean. The weeds seem to multiply overnight, and I find myself pulling them out by the roots, determined to maintain the beauty

Soon after my wife and I purchased our first home, I tilled the entire backyard. It was a pretty good size. “You tilled the ENTIRE backyard,” my wife asked. “Well, yeah,” I said, “Now I won’t have to mow it.” “But you’ll have to weed it,” she quipped right back. And so amidst a lot of weeding over the years, I come to find there are quite a few parallels to taking care of a garden and life with God. When I was really young my dad had kept a garden, mostly to keep the grocery

With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said: ‘To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowerets tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end.’ Then came another master, Who did not love mankind , And planted on the pathway Gold flowers for them to find. And mankind saw the bright flowers, That, glitt’ri

On January 20, 1961, in his inaugural address, our 35th president, John F. Kennedy, delivered this unforgettable charge: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." The president's speech reminds us that we are to live as contributors to society, not just consumers. As Believers, one of the greatest things we can do for our country is to pray. Paul wrote to his spiritual son, Timothy: "I urge, then, first of al