HANDS The young man had just returned home from his junior year in college.  He had been working so very hard to keep his grades up as prepared for medical school.  It hadn’t been easy, but truly wanted his dad to be proud of him and did not want to let him down. His dad […]

Bill’s nephew Tommy had a birthday coming up.  Tommy was such a wonderful, inquisitive, and boy with a mind full of dreams and tablet adorned with the scribbles of great thoughts and inventions.  He also liked balloons.  Big balloons, small balloons, oddly shaped balloons.  It did not matter.  He had a fascination towards all balloons […]

When Mandy was only 5 years old, her dad started giving her a gold dollar on each of her birthdays.  She would get other presents, dolls, skates, a bicycle, but the present that she always looked forward to the most was that moment when her dad would pull her aside, reach into his pocket, and […]

by Rev Walt The small boy had a smile that was as wide as the river that ran north of town.  A gentle spring breeze whisked his brown hair about his face and his eyes sparkled in the morning sun.  Freckles danced across his nose in a dervish of youthful candor.  He was lean, but […]