“Today You Shall Be With Me In Paradise…”
In 2017, one of my cousins finally succumbed to the disease which ate away at his body. His name? Jimmy Bowers. He was the son of the oldest of my father’s sisters, Beatrice, so he was always considerably older than the rest of the cousins. So, when I was a kid, he was a young […]
“Father Forgive Them…”
Final words. They have a way of sticking with you for a lifetime. The year was 1981. The month was a cold, foggy January day in Stockton. I was a twenty-two-year-old newlywed working for a landscape company as I awaited acceptance at Dallas Theological Seminary. The call from my father in San Diego caught me […]
Psalm 51 – Part 2
The young bride-to-be had a credit card problem. During our last counseling session prior the wedding, I discovered she, at twenty-seven years old, had a minimum payment on her Visa card for $720. You read that right. After I explained to her and her groom how to strategically eliminate this massive debt, she looked at […]
Psalm 51 – Part 1
Much spiritual wisdom can be gained by studying the flora and fauna around us. Take, for instance, a tree I trimmed as a gardener years ago. Outwardly, the tree exhibited life and health. Internally, however, the evidence could not have been more contrary. Cutting my way through a large vibrant branch with a sharp, many-toothed […]
