Musings

By Rick Moore Albert Einstein said, “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” He also said, “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” He added, “Logic will get you...

By Kirk McCarley In government service, position classification is an important and sensitive endeavor for not just human resources staff, but the employees who are impacted by it.  For the uninitiated, the premise is that each job has a certain monetary value based on either or both the mental and...

By Victoria Ostrosky “It only takes a glimpse of hope to make somebody not hopeless.”  Chet Walker finally learned that lesson after nineteen years of drug use, and now he fully comprehends the furious longing that God has for us. In Brennan Manning’s book The Furious Longing of God he explains...

By Gueary Clendening Many years ago, My wife, Linda and I lived in Illinois. Memories of driving to southern Illinois to spend Christmas with her family are truly cherished memories! On one particular Christmas, we left on Christmas eve driving down on Interstate 57. We were traveling at night and...

By Pastor David Holland “I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread. He is ever merciful, and lends; And his descendants are blessed.” (Psalm 37:25-26, NKJV) There I stood in Capernaum, where Jesus once provided bread for the multitudes and...

By Sean Dietrich It’s a few minutes until Thanksgiving. I thought I’d stay up and watch the clock change. I’m sipping tea, listening to gentle music playing in the background. I think it’s Bing Crosby, or maybe Nat King Cole. The volume is too low to tell. Either way, it sounds...

By Kirk MCCarley A few days ago, I shared a drink and some sandwiches with a couple of work mates at an airport eatery, killing time before our respective flights back home departed.  As guys are often wont to do, our conversation drifted into a Seinfeldian discussion of observations and...

By Victoria Ostrosky When she heard the authoritative knock on her front door, she quickly ran to her baby brother and grabbed his hand.  Her eyes were great pools of fear and, with a trembling voice, she begged to not be separated from her little brother.  Their home, such as...

By Rick Moore, During the first year of college, I was elected freshman class president. Two days before the first monthly meeting that I was to preside over, a tornado ripped through the city destroying dozens of homes. I proposed we do our part and help those who were less...

By Sean Dietrich This is not my story. It was told to me. In fact, I’m hearing it for the first time, just like you are. The year was 1982. The old man climbed out of a rust-red Ford. He was ancient. He walked with a shuffle as he hobbled into...