God According To Pooh
One Thursday before God had turned on the lights I was up. I had procrastinated a little in my message preparation. I believe like the old country preacher that procrastination is one of the main doctrines of the church. Some tasks have to be put off many times before they slip your mind completely. By Thursday, the Noon Business Lunch had completely slipped my mind. I woke up realizing that I had to speak because I had told my pastor I would speak. I was supposed to speak about God for thirty minutes. I had just started to study when I heard...
read moreBite Your Own Big Toe
Have you ever called someone a “snob” or “unfriendly” when they didn’t speak to you and later found out that they had just received some news of a tragedy? They weren’t being a jerk; they were just in shock. We don’t know where people start but we have a plan where people ought to be. We don’t know their motives or their background so we make a judgment and get into trouble. Like the old man who took his ugly dog for his regular Sunday walk in the park. The little old man sat on the park bench while his dog played at his feet....
read moreA Laughing House
When our girls were growing up I spent father/daughter time with each one by taking them individually on a trip with me. They were allowed to pick the destination. One year Breanne chose Orlando, home of Disney World of course. The girls also picked the restaurants. Breanne and I stayed in a hotel right by McDonald’s. Needless to say we had 14 meals at McDonald’s that week. By the end of the week I had changed my name to McCharles. Having only one child with me I was able to watch interaction between parents and their children. It was...
read moreWe All Need A Pit Stop In The Race Of Life
After an elementary teacher gave a science lesson on magnets, she gave her students a quiz to see how much they had learned. One of the questions read, “My name starts with M. I have six letters and I pick up things. What am I?” Half the class answered with the six-letter word Mother. Thank goodness God made mothers because mothers not only pick up things, they pick us up. Who is the first person you think about when you fall down and go boom? Chances are it is your mother. God had a great idea when he invented mothers. I have the old...
read moreEating Frogs
Many people have the philosophy “Ready, aim, aim, aim.” They never get around to doing anything. They aim to do this or aim to do that and someday they aim to do something great. They aim but they never pull the trigger. Many times procrastination leads to discouragement and depression. We put off doing something and then it gets bigger and more difficult so we put it off again. Our philosophy becomes, “Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after tomorrow.” Now the molehill has become a mountain and you’re...
read moreDe-Scenting A Skunk
Everyone has conflicts. During the first conflict with my wife I didn’t see her for a couple of days and then slowly my left eye began to open. Now my eyes are wide open and I realize that conflict is inevitable. Even if you marry Mr. Right his first name will probably be Always. One couple had been arguing about everything for years. They were tired of living in a perpetual state of conflict. Finally she tipped off her husband about the prayer she was petitioning to God. She said, “I’ve been praying for God to help us stop all this...
read morePause At The Top
A man watched amazed as a driver of a pickup truck carrying a load of chickens stopped every half mile, got out of the truck, beat the side with a baseball bat until the chickens were flying in the air, get back in the truck and drive off. Seeing this process about five times he couldn’t resist asking. He pulled beside the man and said, “I can’t stand it. I’ve been watching you for some time. Why do you pull over and beat the truck with a bat to make the chickens fly? What is the problem?” The man said, “Well, I have a big problem....
read moreYour Resignation Has Been Accepted
Trying to control the world causes us lots of problems. We waste a lot of energy on things we can’t control. You can devise a great strategy and even pray all night that the sun will not come up, but it will. When the north wind blows, you can say and do anything you want, but it’s going to blow. The best thing to do is to find your heavy coat and accept that the north wind will blow. A nervous passenger once asked the captain of an ocean liner what would happen if the ship hit an iceberg. “Nothing.” replied the captain. “The iceberg...
read moreWedding Wake-Up Call
Relationships are confusing these days. I read that there is a rock star’s son who will marry his ex-wife’s mother. His son from a previous marriage announced his engagement to the mother of the rock star’s former wife. The marriage will make the rock star his ex-wife’s step-grandfather. I think. People marry again and again. A pastor’s phone rang on Tuesday morning. It was a call from a young woman who didn’t identify herself. She stated that she wanted to be married on Friday of that week. This was to be her sixth marriage. Not...
read moreBaby Talk
The first time I saw our oldest daughter, I saw a bald head and heard powerful lungs. She was a loud noise at one end and no responsibility at the other. It was scary. Now I know why they say, “Hold the head.” It’s the safest part. I knew this baby was going to change my life when I asked my mother-in-law to stay over a few extra days just to help us. I didn’t know what to do with my new daughter. By the end of the first day, I was so completely helpless, that I just took her to my mother-in-law. “Here’s your problem,” she said....
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