I’ve been reading a devotional book by Randy Alcorn that features portions of sermons by the great Charles Spurgeon. The book is on heaven and it describes beautiful and profound aspects of heaven in a real and tangible way. You may be like the Apostle Paul and yearn for that place, yet God has a plan for us here on planet earth. But one day….one day, we shall see as never before and experience a love so deep we cannot …
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My 40th high school reunion is coming up October 2019. Seeing familiar names on the reunion email, got me thinking about elementary and middle school. I began to reminisce about time gone by riding my bike to the park near our home and wandering through the nearby woods all day with friends Walt and Newman. ~ That same week a dear friend, David Gilley, died here in Atlanta. He and I had grown close and were collaborating on some …
I was fortunate to hear former Denver Bronco, Atlanta Falcons and NY Giants NFL coach Dan Reeves speak to a group of Georgia county officials in Savannah recently. Reeves grew up in Americus, Georgia and was born near there in Andersonville, the site of the historical Civil War prison camp. The theme of the county leadership meeting was Leading with Honor – I now see why they chose him to speak on the topic. In case you don’t keep up with football, Coach Dan Reeves was …
At 73, my mother died last month after a battle with Alzheimer’s. However, when my mother was alive, she was really alive. She was a giver and always moving and she was a great mother. She invested in the lives of her children, took us to events, encouraged us to pursue our dreams and congratulated us when we did well. She led others with enthusiasm, she had a smile a mile wide, beautiful blue eyes and she had an unusually …