It has now been a month since I returned from England, and God has been busy. For all intents and purposes, I had finished the first draft of the book.  But I wasn’t feeling very exuberant about it.  In fact, I was feeling pretty discouraged.  It felt like it lacked something to hang it on. …

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I am home again in California, sitting at my desk with little stacks of “to-do” piles all around me.  I returned from England on Saturday evening and am still catching up.  And it’s not just trivia, either.  My spirit and soul have a thing or two going on as well. The first part of the trip…

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This morning I heard the lions roar from the deck of the lodge.  Two males were on the go, looking for a place sleep away the day and making their presence known in the process. Now I sit on a hilltop overlooking the plains, the sun coming up on the left while I look out over the…

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“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find we have lost the future.”   – Winston Churchill I knew there was something I liked about him!  A great statesman and historian like Winston Churchill understood the tie between the past and the future.  He studied the patterns of human behavior over time…

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This morning was devoted to writing.  It went pretty well, even though it got off to a rocky start.  I am quickly learning that serious writing involves a whole lot more than skill with words.  There are these things called emotions.  Sometimes they are all on the same page at the same time.  These are…

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