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Preparations Were Made

Someone had been thinking of me. Preparations had been made for my coming. I felt welcomed, important. A menu had been planned. Food had...

Thorns and Thistles

Things don’t always go smoothly. Michael Bortman’s auto parts store was having a particularly snake-bitten day. Customer after customer...

You've been called to the office

What would you think if God called you into his office? Would it feel like the most frightening place you’ve ever had to appear? Like...

Gotcha no's?

“Gotcha nose!” Dad would say as he pulled his half-covered thumb away from my face. I’m not sure why that was funny when I was a kid, but...

Getting to the Heart

My imaginary cousin Willie Wally Wishum is often the butt of jokes. For example, he was enjoying his first ever comedy show until a...

God's Gap Filler

Gaps! They’re everywhere, and I can’t seem to get rid of them. They showed up in the new moldings I installed in a bathroom-remodeling...

Free to Find the Best

Would you like to learn a profound, theological truth that could forever change your life?Go to the cereal aisle. Yes, the cereal aisle....

What's that Sound?

Thump. Thump. Thump. It’s 4:00 A.M. on a Friday morning. I do NOT want to be awake! But that noise is driving me crazy. It sounds like a...

Asleep at the Wheel

I felt an old, familiar panic. “Where am I, and how did I get here?” I wondered. The feeling was familiar from a long ago summer. I was...

The Heart of a Father

At the root of America’s failures is the failure of its fathers. Our test scores lag in school, not because of a faulty faculty, but...