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We just crossed the threshold from 2025 to 2026. How does that make you feel…other than possibly a bit older? Are you excited about a new year leading to a fresh start or are you bummed that you didn’t meet your goals from 2025? Maybe a little of both.   They saying goes “it’s not how you start that matters but how you finish.” I happen to agree with that. Typically the easiest part of a project is at the beginning when there is the most hope and excitement for how a projec

We just celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday. I imagine you had some kind of tradition in stating something you were thankful for (we do anyway). ’m sure that for that day, it wasn’t that hard to come up with something to be thankful for; family, friends, your job, or at least the food you were about to eat. What about the rest of the year? What about when things aren’t going in such a way that it’s easy to give thanks?    We typically want to reserve our words of thanks for

The phrase ““If you can’t beat em’, join em’’”  has been around at least as long as the 1930’s, and has been used as a slogan for any number of decisions from the political figure we voted on,  the places we shop, and even the sports team  we root for.  Early last summer, I publicly switched from being a Mariners fan to a Yankees fan.  I wasn’t exactly ready to be a Yankees fan, but I was tired of the Mariners way of losing year after year, so I switched. I was instantly rewa

Make lemonade!  The idea behind this catchy (yet hard to follow) phrase is to make the best of a bad situation .  Some people come by it...

Lesson:  I recently watched a YouTube baseball video of the Yankees head coach (Aaron Boone) talking about his team winning the game they...

We are only "a piece" of God's puzzle (Life is not about me)    This past June at V.B.S., I was the memory verse guy. Thanks to my wife,...

Spring has sprung, and spring cleaning has begun (I started with my garage).     This is the first time since arriving in Odessa that my...

I was once asked to straighten a crooked fence post. I did it Josh's way...brute force! It was a short fence and I decided I was going...