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 The Way It Ought to Go We all have our ideas, assumptions, standards and blueprints about how we think life ought to “play out.” Though we may not want to admit to ourselves or to anyone else, we all want life to go according to how we think it ought to go.  But, I have…

 Step One: Believe Though I do not have an exact date, it was in the month of November, 1979, that I encountered Jesus in a personal and life changing way that altered my life for the rest of my life.  I was twenty-one at the time and ready to follow in my father’s footsteps. He’d…

I Can’t See Sometimes the weather is foggy, and driving through pea soup for an unknown number of miles puts me on pins and needles. My shoulders tense and I squint my eyes as if that could help me to pierce through the dense, dark cloud.   Being the defensive driver that I am though, I…

All Things? Last January, I sent off my application to retire from public school teaching and my retirement became final in June.  Though I no longer wanted to teach in a public school classroom, I still wanted to work. I had my eye on a particular establishment thinking it would be a fun and less…