Recently a friend asked about my Prison Fellowship and here is some of what I wrote to her. Once a week I travel to Sierra Conservation Center (located 1.5 hours east of Stockton, CA) as a volunteer to teach inmates How To Enjoy The Bible. Lucy, Thanks for asking about the Prison Fellowship.  Very few care about what much of society sees as nothing more than trash and often cardinal Christians wonder just why we bother to help those who have so wickedly sinned against society.  Eighty –fiv...
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For those of us whose garages are so full that we cannot park a car in the garage, we are sometimes frustrated by all of the “stuff” of life. Perhaps we worry that we are becoming owned by our possessions. If we want to keep our priorities straight, we need to narrow choices of “To have or to be.” There is no intrinsic problem in owning things but we dare not focus our lives on acquiring more and more to the neglect of who we are. Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian novelist, provides an intrig...
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"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson "All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." Mark Twain "You have achieved success if you have lived well, laughed often and loved much." Anonymous "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." Henry Ford
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