Raising children pushed me to walk the walk and practice life as I preach it.
Isn't it the unexpected that teaches us the most?
I don't write for a living. I live to write.
How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart. . . how it lifts us up and brings us down. . . the wonder of life.
I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E. T. '
At such close range, even she could hit a vampire full force in the shoulder, surprising him considerably. He paused in his attack. “Well, my word! You can’t threaten me, you’re pregnant!
If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.
When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any greater, for it was already infinite. We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No--Jesus died because God is showing mercy. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. If God had not been merciful there would have been no incarnation, no babe in the manger, no man on a cross and no open tomb.