I Am Thankful

I am thankful for the dust on my floors, because it means I have floors to clean and a home to clean them in. I am thankful for the pain I feel in my big toe after hitting it on the cabinet this morning, because it means I am still alive.  I am thankful. I am thankful...

Not By Our Own Strength

  When I was a kid growing up in my small Southern Illinois hometown of Cairo, we kids lived by an unspoken code where name-calling was concerned. I can remember one day while playing in my room hearing the words “Shut up punk!” coming from a familiar little...