Renee Hawkley In Joy!

I bought a toilet plunger for $1.66 as insurance that I'll never need to use it.

Learning to forgive is like discovering a bridge in the thicket that leads to the path back home.

Recently, I read "The Lincoln Hypothesis" by Timothy Ballard. This book helped me appreciate Abraham Lincoln and those who gave their lives in the Civil War so that these 47 words of the 13th Amendment could be added to The Constitution: "Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." While reading the book, I asked myself; Was the 13th Amendment "worth" the loss of 618,222 lives? Do forms of "slavery" still exist in our country? I know what my response is to those questions. I also know that the mortar of freedom is still (until Jesus returns) the red blood of patriots. I am grateful today for Martin Luther King, Jr. and for every soldier or law enforcement officer who has given...

"Word counter" has the article "What a Prayer from 1893 can teach us" at 1,163 words.  It seems counterproductive for the writer of this article to stump for "silence is golden" in politics and override his point with a plethora of "be nice" rhetoric. Because "be nice politics" feels like Obama-Romney land.  Which, as we now know.  Didn't work.  Maybe "being nice" works for skirmishes between Pahoran and Moroni, but . . .  If Satan could be "won over" by being nice . . . yeah, that Would be nice.  But he can't.  And he won't. Meanwhile, President Trump stumps boldly for the right to life, the American flag, "Peace through Strength," legitimate immigration reform, The Constitution, "In God we trust," freedom of religion, the 2nd Amendment, getting people off welfare, regulation reform . . . on and on.  And President Trump is winning. Yes. He goes overboard with ba...

There is no Harry Potter with special powers. Not really. There is Jesus Christ with special powers. Really. Jesus Christ uses His special powers to help anyone. Everyone. Just ask.

Nothing warms the soul like watching fat flakes of snow glisten and dance in concert outside my window, then gently tuck themselves into the deepening mattress of my Idaho neighborhood.