I was sitting in the car while Jim went into a quick shop to get us a cup of coffee. I noticed a young woman coming out of the door, and she had a look on her face that was not pleasant. In fact, she looked really angry. Judging from the way she got into her car and slammed the door, I would say I was right about that.  I didn’t know her. As far as I know, I had never seen her before. My impression of her was not very good based upon one thing – how her face looked. Have you ever given any thought to how your face looks to other people? I’m…

One of the things I miss about my dad being gone is fishing. We did a lot of fishing. Some of my best memories were just of me and my dad going to Lake McSwain in California and fishing for trout. I can’t think of a happier time in my life. There was nothing I looked forward to more than fishing with Jim Tatum. Sometimes we fished from the bank, and sometimes we took our little flat bottom boat. If you knew anything about my dad you knew he didn’t spend a lot or have extravagant things. He had purchased this quaint little boat for a couple hundred bucks. One…

[Author’s Note] Recently, I received a message from somebody who asked me to send her a copy of something I had written about Christian education. After quite of bit of digging into my old files, I found an article I wrote quite a number of years ago.  Because of the passage of time, I’ve had to do some editing. When I wrote the article originally, we were awaiting the birth of our second grandchild. We now have five grandchildren and the one whose birth we were anticipating at the time is now thirteen.  After I did my “digging,” I discovered that this particular article was not the one that my friend had in…