March 31: Collecting Sayings

One of my hobbies is collecting rural sayings, quotes, and metaphors. “He’s as happy as a dead pig in the sunshine.”   I’ve always heard that in my neck of the woods.   When I took the above photo in Honduras, I told the villagers the saying .  When it was interpeted, they all laughed.  They’d never heard it before. Last week I asked a fellow how he was...

Mon. March 29: Kelton’s Paddle

Today’s Proverb: Proverbs 29:15   The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother. It’s a fact that I strongly believe:  Children want discipline. God set it within the human heart that we desire limits.  We’ll fight those limits and stick our toe over the line to see if our parents mean what they say. In a former life, I spent eight years in...

March 28: Thoughts on ‘working your land.’

Proverbs 28:19 He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty. “T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L.”    There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.  If you think someone in Nigeria is, out of the goodness of their heart, going to share their 10 million dollar inheritance with you, you’d...

Sat. March 27

I’ll be at Hastings Books in Alexandria, LA today from 2-4 PM. If you’re in the area, drop by.  If not, pray that I’ll be a good witness as I greet old friends and meet new ones. Proverbs 27:17  “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” For most of my adult life I’ve been part of a small group of men*meeting weekly for coffee, talk, and Bible...

Friday, March 26

  We had a nice review of A Good Place in today’s Alexandria Town Talk.  Click here to read it. Tomorrow (March 27) from 2:00-4:00 PM I’ll be at Hastings Books in Alexandria signing copies of A Good Place and The Wayfaring Stranger. Come by if you can. Also send a message to your Cenla friends about this event.   Grandchildren are one of life’s greatest joys. I thank...