Back in the Day By Bunny Baker

Some things never change. An editorial in a local newspaper dated August 1960 quoted a youngster, “My parent are just too busy with their own affairs.

Thinking Out Loud

One of the most important lessons we learn in life is ‘life's a dance.' Sometimes we lead, and sometimes we follow. When we lead, we learn to be gentle, yet firm with a pure heart. When we follow, we do so with complete trust.

Do You Want to Have No Fear?

Only 45 percent of colonists picked up arms at any one time during their fight for freedom. More people lost their lives in this conflict than in our nation’s other wars. Some were innocent, in the wrong place at the wrong time.The Civil War divided many families.

Thinking Out Loud

'In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible... Youcannotnow believe that you will ever feel better, but this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now.

From the Pastor’s Desk

Pastor Ron Biddle Have you ever noticed how sometimes when one storm passes . . . another is already forming to test your faith?The Southeast United States experienced tropical storm Ida in 2021, but if you live in Puerto Rico, you understand the concept of one storm after another.

“MY EYES! OH, MY EYES”

If you see it, you can never unsee it. You hear it, it’s in your memory bank forever. Unless it’s the phone number to the pediatrician when your kid is running a 102 temp at midnight. But usually, everything you see and hear becomes part of you – good and bad. Kind of a scary, intimidating fact.

Who feels confined?

Barbara Mackle and her mother had settled into their comfortable hotel room in Atlanta in December 1968. They’d been out on a long day of Christmas shopping. Barbara was the 20-year-old daughter of a wealthy Miami industrialist.After saying, “Good night, Mom,” there was a knock. “Who is it?

Back in the Day By Bunny Baker

Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight, and bull strong. Keep skunks and lawyers at a distance. Trouble with a milk cow is she won't stay milked. Don't name a pig you plan to eat. To know how country folks are doing look at their barns, not their houses. Don't sell your mule to buy a plow.

Thinking Out Loud

Let's face it, growing old is not as bad as people seem to think it is or is it? Sure, we seem to find everyday tasks a bit more challenging than we used to, and the prices on the menu are more difficult to squeeze into our budget now that our incomes may have changed.

Thinking Out Loud

Grief and grieving is inevitable because we choose to love. And it can be argued that it lingers on and on because we refuse to learn to love in separation and complete a primary task: acceptance of the loss and the many changes demanded.