This was it!  It was our second chance for happiness.  We were going to make sure we did everything right this time.  We read every book, newsletter, magazine and article that we could get our hands on about step-families.  We learned to take things slow and keep our expectations low.  We even planned a small, family wedding ceremony that included the boys.  After all, they were getting married too. After being married for two months, I remember people ... Read More

            I prayed for my grandchildren this morning as is my custom.  I found myself focusing attention on my oldest – Khemberlyn.  This was not because she is my favorite because I love and cherish all my children in both generations.  I paid attention to her in that prayer because she just turned 5 and is about to enter public school.      Since birth our family has had almost exclusive access to her attention.  This access allowed us to enjoy ... Read More

No one told me that having grandchildren would bring me so much joy and happiness.  I suspected that I was going to love having “grands,” and I was sure that I’d be a good grandfather.  But I never thought I’d fall this hard.  I just flat out love my grands!  I’m blessed to see them almost everyday.  They all attend the daycare center of the church I pastor. At the end of the day, I look forward to hearing the noise of ... Read More

The Charles Dickens quote: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …” would seem to qualify as the motto of America over the past few years.  It has been the best of times because technological innovations have made life exciting.   It has opened up opportunities that just a few decades ago would have seemed unimaginable.   The Internet, the obvious crowning achievement of the technological revolution, has made millionaires out of ordinary people who probably would never had ... Read More

Family Business What happened to wisdom? It used to be that one of the real assets in being a part of a family was access to passed down wisdom. We remember what it was like as children to hear our fathers tell stories. We would be sitting at the dinner table or riding in the car and before you knew it the stories would flow. But there was a mission behind the stories. They were really dispensed wisdom ... Read More