Collecting My Thoughts

I glanced across the aisle at church today and watched a three year old in her mom's lap. She almost made it to one of our Christmas ca...

Debra Lynn (Nall) Diehl, 67, of Mt. Morris, Illinois, passed away peacefully on July 5, 2023, after suffering from some heart issues earlier...

Yesterday I received a cartoon-poem from a high school friend, Rusty Rush, about the Golden Years. Actually, I didn't know him in high s...

There's a guy in our church I've known slightly over the years--a fantastic musician and a gourmet chef. What a combination. So we...

I just watched on TV one of those disgusting "lesson plans" to sexualize American children in kindergarten. I think it was for Ohi...

A relative has been ill with GERD since a few days after the Super Bowl, so about 2 weeks. She's really feeling yucky and hasn't b...

I wanted to check a different translation today for the sermon, so I tried to find my old KJV from 1946, which I received for Christmas that...

My son is in a hospital bed in my home office with a brain tumor, and my husband is in a hospital bed at Riverside Hospital with an undiagno...

When I noted on Facebook that Phil was at his own home after 6 days in the hospital with help from his family, a friend from church, a widow...

She was 48 with a husband and children and a large family of parents, brothers and sister, and many nieces and nephews. Her cancer was very ...

In those days, Cancer came and waged war against Phil's brain. Phil Bruce therefore said to his medical posse, "Pick out the best...

“A good way to start loving God divinely is by generously loving your spouse, children, parents, siblings, and friends. It is doubtful that ...

From a letter.  "Aunt Muriel called twice this month to wish us a Happy Anniversary and also on my birthday.  I said something about my...

When we married in 1960 we had a huge emotional and financial safety net--between us we had six parents, seven grandparents, and one grea...

Here are ten reasons left-wingers cut Trump voters from their lives according to National Review.  I don't agree with all of these. Fo...

"Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance...on all the days we had spent here together. What was I going to d...

If you look deeply, everything the Left/socialists/Democrats offer/demand is anti-family, anti-fertility and therefore, anti-woman. Wheth...

A nice day.  Attended services at our son's church, Gender Road Christian Church, then had lunch with our children at a near by Bob Ev...

XIV ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY THE VOCATION AND MISSION OF THE FAMILY IN THE CHURCH AND THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD...

"The family is under attack from internal forces, such as divorce, cohabitation, decline in marriage, promiscuity, abuse and violence, ...