Like I said in my previous blog post, I decided to become Jack’s friend.  I had a Masters Degree in Education and he could barely read and write, but I became his friend because he needed one. He told me about all the things I related to you in the previous post over a four or five year period. I did my best to help him contact his daughters by going through Social … [Read more...] about I Thought He Was My Friend #2

I went to the county dump on Friday and decided to stop and see my old friend Jack, who lives a couple blocks from the dump, and one I hadn’t seen in some time. He lives on a one acre corner lot.  There used to be junk spread over his one acre.  For a long time, he considered the junk his valuable possessions.  The junk is now gone.  He put some fencing around his yard and … [Read more...] about I Thought We Were Friends

I received the following in my e-mail today and I thought it had a lot to say so I present it here to stir up some thought.  Jesus said that the law and the prophets could be summed up in two commandments: 1.  Love God and 2. Love your neighbor.  He said that loving your neighbor is like the the first.  I believe he said this because if we love our neighbor, we are loving … [Read more...] about God as a Verb

I’ve previously written about meeting Coretta Scott King during the 25 year anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March, but I didn’t say anything about meeting Jesus. I’d parked my RV in the parking lot in front of the state capital of the “Great State of Alabama” so marchers would have a place to come if they were sick or had sore feet.  At one point there were about 12 … [Read more...] about Meeting Jesus in My RV

I went to to my niece Stephanie’s wedding in November and they gave us a free copy of the Oregonian at the place where we stayed.  I didn’t read it at the time and then it sat around my house for weeks unread.  I read an article about teachers that basically said that we are not getting good teachers because people don’t respect the profession enough as shown by the amount of … [Read more...] about Morality of Tax Cuts for the Wealthy