Not long after I opened our resort at Honey Lake a friend came by to see me. He asked directions from a storekeeper at a store down the road from us and they told him the craziest story one could imagine. According to my friend when the “sincere looking” storekeeper was given my name and the name of our resort she went into this story with gusto . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2022/03/church-buries-bodies-for-the-mob/

A friend of mine whom I’ve enjoyed serving alongside in prison ministry used to be one of the toughest prison officials in the state of Texas. He is a very big man and as mean as those whom he was watching over and he disliked inmates and what they had done immensely. He treated them accordingly. Then along came Jesus Christ and my friend’s hardened heart was repaired by Jesus. He went on to theology school and became an ordained preacher and began leading inmates to Christ both in his church and in the prison pods and yards . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2022/03/hope-can-be-found-anywhere/

I read an interesting book about atheists entitled, 8 Absurd Things Atheists Must Believe Before Breakfast. The 8 absurd things atheists must believe are as follows . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2022/03/white-collar-conservative/

It has been too windy to go fishing in the keys lately and the natives are getting restless. I’m one of them. I miss being out on the water, but I am getting a lot done prior to my move. So, the local weather prognosticators are predicting a good break in the weather next week and I’m sure I will head offshore . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2022/03/hanging-up-fishing-rods-and-reels/

One day I was home when an afternoon thunderstorm came up and lightning hit a tree about 150 feet from my house. The dazzling white flash of lightning flooded my living room and was amazing in its brilliance. It emitted an extremely loud BANG! And the impact was so jarring that it could be felt in the chair in which I was sitting. It was very powerful . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2022/03/lightning-does-strike-twice-2/

I have a friend who loves Indian artifacts, and he goes and looks for arrowheads at every opportunity. Throughout my many years spent afield hunting and so forth I collected quite a few points myself, and whenever I find one in a field or creek, I try to imagine what the Indian who owned it might have been shooting at. Was it an arrow loosed during a fierce battle, or perhaps merely a misspent arrow shot at a whitetail deer or wild turkey? . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2022/03/send-utes-to-honey-lake-2/

I was asked recently by a reader if I ever get tired of reading criticism towards me for writing Words for the Day. I don’t get that much criticism anymore and I hope it is not because of inadvertently softening my stance on sins such as homosexual sin and especially homosexual weddings, abortion, atheism, Satan worshippers, and the like. I will maintain until my dying day that those are dark evil sins and sin, according to the Bible, does not escape consequences . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2022/03/i-dont-like-tornados-or-big-mouths/

Recently I had a couple of people send me emails indicating that my thoughts concerning my retirement plans were unrealistic and one termed it: “pie in the sky”. I usually don’t ever give a second thought to the many pseudo-intellectual wannabe genius debaters that have written me over the last 25 years, but I suppose this got under my skin a little . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2022/03/lemon-meringue-in-the-sky/

I have increasingly found myself wondering what day it is. Writing Words for the Day helps in that regard because I don’t post it on Saturday or Sunday. So at least a couple of times a week I am aware that it is either Saturday or Sunday . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2022/03/only-the-now/

My wife and I drove down to Key West last night to eat dinner and attend a concert. On the way down she mentioned that last weekend our former church had baptized about 15 people in the ocean behind the new church. What an experience for them, I’m sure it is indelibly stamped in their minds and those in attendance . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2022/03/the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-4/