I remember when I first met Carol. It was in the middle of winter, it was snowing pretty hard, and Deb told me, “I have someone I want you to meet.” We were courting back then, and of course it was early enough in the relationship, when you really want to do everything with the [...]
Although I have been working my way chronologically through my life with this series, I thought I might digress momentarily, to address an issue that will provide a necessary basis for what I will be relating in Part 6. If a child is confronted with and immersed in what can only be termed as evil [...]
As a child, I used to sing the song Jesus Loves Me. The words went, “Jesus loves me, this I know; for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong; they are weak, but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me; for the Bible tells [...]
I could never have imagined that within a year or two of my declaring that I had accepted Jesus as my savior in the warm, gently lilting waters of Jordan Lake at the tender age of 7, that I would have forever taken from me my childhood. I would never have imagined that it would [...]
I first became familiar with the Bible when I was very young, as far back as my memory will carry me. I remember the large, oversized ivory-colored family Bible on the table in front of the sofa, with its holographic picture embedded into the cover, a portrait of a long-haired Jesus that would shift to [...]
