The dust was flying all around me as I held the tractor on the dirt road in between the ditches. The pop, pop, and clank of the engine was loud in my ears, and the puffs of smoke from the stack up front were catching in the wind and blowing back in my face. We…
“Dad, I know we can hike out of here”, said my youngest son, Graham, as I looked up at the grey sky, flecks of rain touching my face. He was 15, at the time, and there was real fear in his eyes and concern for me and his brothers. I hoped he wouldn’t see the…
Every year we pull them out of the closet. The cardboard box is bent on the corners and a little faded now. It smells of the years of storage – a kind of rich aroma of cardboard decay. Inside the box there are a number of dividers and in each divider there is a memory.…
I could feel the rumble and vibration coming up through my cowboy boots as the earth moved under my feet on the dirt road. The road was flanked by a 6 ft. ditch on one side – the bottom of it dry and full of weeds so thick it was dark even in…
Christian Training Center International We live in a world where men are portrayed as being out-of-touch, old fashioned, intolerant and sometimes just plain stupid. On television Fathers are mocked and are to be pitied most of all. It seems that no one is more out-of-touch! While it’s true that we have brought some of this…
I caught up with a friend in the hospital a few months ago. He’s a successful entrepreneur with a beautiful wife and three lovely children. He was in the hospital because of a pulmonary embolism – a blood clot to the lungs, and had been “four hours from dying” when he checked in to the…
It Was On My Mind 