“For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.” Ecclesiastes 4:10 KJV
If someone would say this one word, “Boom!” Your attention would immediately turn in this President’s direction. Like the little boy who gives his lunch to Jesus, he is nameless. For our sake, let’s just call him Dakota. Wondering why he was standing there, looking so lonely, I asked him why he was just standing there.
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.” Jonah 1:2 KJV
One of the hardest things about life is getting older. Through 5 Presidents I look for some advice on getting older. I also found an Old Testament prophet to help me out, too.
“I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.” Psalms 45:17 KJV
Here is my tribute to President George Hebert Walker Bush.
Here are some fun facts and personal opinions about President Richard Nixon
“Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.” Lamentations 3:54 KJV
So, at the risk of sounding old, there is one thing I really miss about the “good old days.” The stunned Tom could not find a word to bring out of his mouth. Then he told him, “Write it when I’m dead.”
The man was a king and kings don’t just marry anyone.
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” I Corinthians 15:55 KJV
On February 27, 1951, Minnesota became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. We never know when that dark stranger will be at the door.
Most were probably trying to escape some other pain, whether physical or emotional, and an unintended side effect of that process was the creation for which they are known. The pain is still very much still there, but its touch cannot be felt, or at the very least it was blunted a little bit. I’m sure he would have done things a lot different, hopefully more ethically, if he would have just applied the blessings from the lessons his parents taught him.
Maybe I was hoping Richard could give me some advice. Doing whatever he had to, one of the candidates decided winning was a lot more important than their friendship.
It was a long, lonely night in the motel room. Everything I worked for seemed to be falling apart. “I have never been a quitter,” he said. Lucky for us, our God is a God of second chances.
