A Small Peace of Winter

A Small Peace of Winter

There is an autumn chill in the air as the winter season approaches. The leaves are leaving the trees and are scattered everywhere my eyes can see. With my rake in hand I’m laboring, perhaps in vain, to clean up our garden and yard in preparation for the frosty months...
The Blacksmith

The Blacksmith

Camp meeting time is my favorite time of the year because the 3ABN family comes together from around the world to worship, sing, and glorify the Lord. I have to admit how much I truly enjoy the camaraderie, the music, and the gathering of the saints; but not my aches...
Failure in the Garden

Failure in the Garden

Not only was my mother elegant and beautiful, but she was also an avid gardener. She truly loved flowers and grew them in great abundance. They were like kaleidoscopes of flora surrounding my childhood home. She could grow flowers from a stone, I thought teasingly. I...
Tack Into the Wind

Tack Into the Wind

Question: When is the shortest path between two points a zigzag?  Answer: When sailing into the wind. Two miles off the coast of Texas we were cruising at a brisk eight knots on-board the Mayan Mystress, a 20-year-old catamaran whose better days were ahead of it....
Casualties of War 

Casualties of War 

This is exciting! My first blog ever. I don’t consider myself a writer. Just a guy with too many thoughts and a dream. So what to write about with so many memories? Some I really don’t want to think about. It was a Sabbath afternoon at Rend Lake, and it was a...