Change Your Inner Forces

….”God grant me the courage to change the things I can….” When the theologian Niebuhr wrote this prayer in 1932 he did not know what we on earth would learn about this subject in the next 90 years. I can tell you from what I’ve learned as...

All Born Ordinary

All Born Ordinary I remember the pain of living on a pedestal. I had been an ordained minister for five years. During that time my parishioners did to me what they had done to all their previous ministers. They put me on a pedestal. Like Christ, I was appointed to be...

My Dad an Inspiration to Me

My Dad an Inspiration My dad was an inspiration to me at every turn in my life. I grew up in Smalltown USA where there was little else for a man and boy to do but hunt and fish. He took me hunting at a new place he had found when I was fourteen. It was an old...

Stepping on Crocodiles

Stepping on Crocodiles Miss Essie was 20 years old when her three small children were swept away by a flash flood. For the past 60 years she has been severely depressed. All was blamed on the grief over her children. Psychiatrists prescribed many antidepressants over...