Reading Time: 3 minutes When my children were very small we lived on a farm. It had an old blue farmhouse that overlooked a lovely pond teeming with snapping turtles, fish, and croaking bullfrogs. Winding around the corner of this pond was an old dirt road that the farmer’s noisy tractors would rumble down…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you ever sat in silence around a campfire, mesmerized by the dancing flames? No one notices exactly when the quietness ensues, but the talking and laughter cease and the only motion is the fire, the only sound the one its tongues produce. Suddenly you notice as if awaking from…
Reading Time: 4 minutes If the heart is the spring from which all the issues of life proceed, surely the face is where this fountain is most clearly seen. Our faces are the single greatest proof we have a soul. Indeed, being made in the image of God, our faces are the finest testimony…
Reading Time: 3 minutes A dusty peddler guides his mule and wagon towards a village in the distance. As he enters it, he sees a group of soldiers huddled around a fire. “Gentlemen, I have items for sale that you can’t afford to be without.” They glance up at the stranger, intrigued by his…
