So they stood, Stacking stone upon stone, A wall against the coming flood Two strong souls, Against a fear unknown, Believers in the power of blood . People said, They were just wasting time, Nothing can hold the water back Look Instead Of putting in your dime, Come grab some stones and help us stack Their heads shook, They left them to their task, And went back home to pack their things Stone on stone, Without question to ask, Their hope in their own strength still clings The floods came, Water rushing downhill. Changes the face of fear for good, Stone on Stone, Against current and still, After...

There is an old saying that we all know. You are what you eat. I never understood that statement, not really, until I had some health and nutrition classes in college. And even then it didn’t really hit me. It wasn’t until I started working out a lot that I came to understand that the food we eat is literally what makes our bodies. Our bodies renew themselves on the average of every seven years. In fact, certain tissues renew faster, and others a little slower. But the average is every seven years. That means that the you that exists now is not the same you that existed seven years...

Anybody who has ever been to a sporting event or seen one on television as seen some fool holding up a sign that said, “John 3:16″ I saw this sign a number of times before I finally went and looked it up to see just what it says in John, chapter 3, verse 16. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.” That’s what John 3:16 says. And I’ve heard that verse over and over during my life, but I never gave it a lot of thought mostly because of the context in which I heard...

Everybody likes a good party. I know I do. I don’t go to nearly enough. Let’s face it. People just love to celebrate. Just about every culture I know has some kind of harvest festival, a way to celebrate the gathering of food. And that carries over even to modern times. I know that it has always been a habit for me, and just about everybody I know, to go out to dinner, or do something to celebrate payday. At our school, we nearly always have a TGIF celebration at a local restaurant/bar on payday. And isn’t payday really our urban version of a harvest? We celebrate births, weddings, birthdays,...

Father Murphy walks into a pub in Donegal, and says to the first man he meets, “Do you want to go to heaven?” The man said, “I do Father.” The priest said, “Then stand over there against the wall.” Then the priest asked the second man, “Do you want to go to heaven?” “Certainly, Father,” was the man’s reply. “Then stand over there against the wall,” said the priest. Then Father Murphy walked up to O’Toole and said, “Do you want to go to heaven?” O’Toole said, “No, I don’t Father.” The priest said, “I don’t believe this. You mean to tell me that when you...