A friend of mine died today unexpectedly–a single car roll-over crash. How do you prepare for something like this? Here and healthy and active, then gone, and leaving a gapping hole. How could his wife or 6 children have prepared for this? Life insurance companies would suggest that their product prepares you. I don’t think so. Death is so strange. To me it seems like an aberration, like something that should not happen. The truth is that it happens to every living thing that grow...

About a year ago my wife was reading a Novel based on the Life of Hosea out of the Bible book by the same name, I think the name of the book is “redeeming love”. It is one of those novels that puts a historical story into a more contemporary context. It was thought provoking and engaging for her, and she wanted me to read it after she had, but there was a problem. The problem was that the cover had a picture of a very beautiful feminine lady with a long flowing pinkish dress, running acros...