It is said our great-grandfathers called it the holy Sabbath, our grandfathers the Sabbath, our fathers Sunday, and we call it the weekend. We have substituted the holiday for the holy day, recreation for reverence, games for godliness, and dissipation for devotion. In short, we use the gift of the Lord’s Day to destroy the (its) Giver.

Well, once again the Christmas season is upon us. It seems we hardly get through the Fourth of July before the stores are hawking Christmas items nowadays. In October I went into a department store to buy some Halloween candy and was confronted with a mechanical Santa waving and ho, ho, ho’ing to customers as they walked through the door.

The very first movie my wife and I saw together was the original Rocky. We went with a group because we weren’t officially dating yet.

Dayna and I said goodbye to our neighbor and good friend Loyce Muse. She joined her husband Bill in heaven on Thursday, October 26th. Loyce was a life-long friend and one of the finest Christian ladies I have ever known.

We all know that drugs are destroying our country. It is not just in the bigger cities but the problem exists in most small communities.

Thought I’d let my doctor check me, cause I didn’t feel quite right. All those aches and pains annoyed me, and I couldn’t seep at night.