When I haven’t written in so long, it is always difficult to trust my heart.  I love to write but am always cautious, that what I write be somewhat meaningful. I am an old dude, and at some point need to step aside, but when one’s life has been so favored, assessing the time for retirement is difficult, perhaps to the detriment. I have always been given favor and the ability to end up in places of influence I neither deserved, nor had in anyway attained to the level of skill

The writer of I Samuel so succinctly captures the age old challenge of life. “The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another, with the valley between them.” I Sam 17:3 NIV. Life is never easy but the lens through which one views life always determines our impact.  It is not a matter of whether or not good triumphs over evil, that has been determined by the cross.  What matters is whether or not we get to play apart in that glorious triumph. There will always be