I may be dating myself here, but have you ever heard the old saying “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear?” The meaning is somewhat self explanatory but let me explain what I am getting at with this analysis. A sow or pig’s ear is all …
C. S. Lewis to Mary Willis Shelburne, June 17, 1963: On how to rehearse for death and how to diminish fear. Pain is terrible, but surely you need not have fear as well? Can you not see death as the friend and deliverer? It means stripping off that body which …
Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” Luke 18:27 Well as usual I find myself at the last minute beginning a piece for the Encouragem. I wonder sometimes if anybody reads what I write and sometime I am afraid they do. The subject line is always …
A friend suggested an easy solution to the deer problem. Every time you cut your hair, wrap it in pantyhose and hang a little from the tree. It works. Really. The deer avoid the tree. And eat your shrubs. Several years after high school, my friend and his new bride …
