My job is to go to the homes of kids with special needs and give them physical therapy. One particularly cute little 7-year-old girl (emphasis on LITTLE and CUTE) is also probably the most difficult kid that I work with. Let’s call her Ava. You see, Ava has a...
I was recently in line at an airport restroom. I had made my way to the front of the line when the next stall opened. It was one of the bigger stalls made to accommodate wheelchairs. I walked in, and as I was closing the door, I noticed the woman behind me in line had...
I heard the following story about 20 years ago. It may or may not be true, but it provides a good intro for this article. In the late 1990s, the most popular play on Broadway was the stage adaptation of Disney’s “The Lion King.” It was very difficult to get tickets...
Jesus concludes a day of sharing parables with this one: “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast...
It happened during the preaching portion of a recent Sunday service in Fort Worth. The sermon was expounding on the account found in Exodus, where the children of Israel had finally been freed after 400 years of captivity in Egypt. During the elder’s final remarks,...
Back in grade school, we all saw that famous PSA with the egg and frying pan that said, “This is your brain on drugs.” We heard the teachers talk about it. There were commercials that discussed it. And we even read about it. It showed, in detail, what would happen to...
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