We recently accepted an invitation from an old high school friend to visit his guest house west of Branson, Mo. We did all the touristy stuff but also took time just to “be” in the beauty of the hills. I took this photo the last morning we were there. The cabin sat on a 200 acre pasture. I snapped this photo one morning in the early-morning fog as the cows moseyed toward the near-by pond for an early morning dip….
Sometimes we don’t take advantage of what Jesus has provided for us. In John 14:12 He said, “Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” When the disciples were in a storm on the Sea of Galilee their boat was in danger of sinking when Jesus was asleep in the stern. They woke Jesus and said to…
This picture contains three of the people I’ve written about in my historical fiction books. On the left is Sanford Deering the main character of The Late Sooner who went into the Oklahoma Territory in the first land run in 1889. The lady is Nora, The Late Sooner’s Daughter, who came back to Missouri when she was nine. The child is my father, Henry, of Hard Times in the Heartland who served in WW II. The old gentleman on the right is Henry Greenup…