Dec 16, 2019
“There’s two types of families, dysfunctional and those that think they are not.” “I just wish we could be like the _________ family.” Words I heard a gentleman share with me years ago as he was lamenting about the estrangement of his daughter. She was making some...
Dec 15, 2019
There was a homeless gentleman walking down the sidewalk in a large city when he noticed what appeared to be a Snickers Bar lying there. He bent over to pick it up and upon doing so the wrapper crushed in his hand. There was no Snickers Bar in the wrapper. “Argh!”...
Dec 12, 2019
It was a calculated move on her part. Running errands in the Target shopping complex she saw that PetSmart was having an adoption day. OR – maybe she knew there was an adoption day thus the need to run errands in that same shopping complex. Regardless of the...
Dec 12, 2019
“Susan and Peter’s house burned to the ground last night.” It was a text I received on my last morning in Uganda. I knew exactly who they were referring to. Peter and Susan Stoltzfus Halliday. This was one of those times that you’d have to ask, “Why, God?!?...
Dec 11, 2019
Have the audacity to come to the Back to School Bash for free things, especially shoes? Those were words uttered at the first Back to School Bash that brought some frustration to the design team. The mission of The Bash was to have an event that allowed an...
Dec 10, 2019
It’s rather gluttonness, actually. Each year before Christmas we would make our children clean out their closets/toy boxes so they could make room for the new things Santa would give them. We made ourselves feel better about this by giving the toys to Goodwill or...