Monthly Archives: December 2025

I was driving down Highway 49 on my way to a small town, watching the fall colors spread across the trees and the fields alive with deer and birds. The quiet beauty of the trip slowed my mind, and I turned on some music from the 60s to keep me company. John Lennon’s Imagine came… Read more »

This past year has carried a weight I never expected. I have watched people I love slip from this world—some slowly through sickness, others swallowed by discouragement, and a few who simply lost the hope that once kept them going. I have seen young families shaken as illness strikes a mother or father, leaving everyone… Read more »

The actor Richard Gere recently said that America needs leaders who can “raise us to a higher level of possibility” and criticized what he called a “crude mentality.” Because he is a celebrity, his spiritual views—shaped by Buddhism—are treated as wisdom and widely accepted. But this raises an honest question: why do the spiritual ideas… Read more »

Yesterday afternoon I watched a movie called Troll. In the first scene, a father was climbing a mountain with his young daughter. When they reached the top, he pointed across the Troll mountains and told her the old stories—how the peaks were shaped like sleeping giants. She stared and said, “I do not see anything.”… Read more »

Proverbs 28:2 warns us plainly: “When there is moral rot within a nation, its government topples easily.” Moral rot begins the moment people turn away from the true God and follow their own desires. It does not show itself suddenly. It starts softly—through small compromises, ignored convictions, and replaced truths. But as a nation pushes… Read more »

Those words rise in me every morning at four o’clock. I never set an alarm, yet this hour continues to call me awake. What once felt like a disturbance has become something sacred. This is the moment when the world is silent and the weight of life presses heavily on my heart. It is the… Read more »