* November 19 - "Tie One On for Safety"; MADD; Ornelas Center: Tyler, TX * November 20 - Judge; Pre-Area Middle School; Region 21; Jacksonville, TX * November 21 - Cadet Graduation; MADD; East Texas Police Academy; Kilgore, TX * December 5 - Senior Adult Christmas Banquet; Central Baptist Church; Jacksonville, TX * December 9 [...]
So many intense situations are happening to so many people, of all ages, all over the world...worse and more often. (Mt 24:8) Today, whatever you're going through, whatever you're struggling with or whatever you're fighting and can't seem to find a way out, I urge you to take a tiny baby-step and go against the [...]
God has a way of crossing our path with different people in different ways at different times...His time. Recently, Joan Hallmark and I were introduced to each other, at the 2014 East Texas Book Fest, through a mutual friend and author, Martha B Hook. After Joan had learned of my severe traumatic brain injury and [...]
There are all kinds of ways we walk: saunter, stroll, mosey, speed-walk, etc. Two questions to ponder: 1) How do you typically walk? Describe it in one word. 2) What style of walking best describes your faith-walk? Describe it in one word or phrase. Related to walking, here's a quote I wrote several years ago: [...]
Before I begin my weekend travels, a few things were on my mind.... 1) Stand. There are times we need to stand. Like the Apostle Paul urged those of the province of Ephesus and the surroundings areaa, to stand even after they had done everything to stand.....stand. 2) Small things. How important it is and [...]
Thought I'd pass along a few quotes I've recently read or been given: Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. ~ Samuel Johnson "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." ~ Jim Elliott Child, all our times are in [...]
Thought I'd send out the dates of upcoming Book Signings of the June-24th-released CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: Recovering from Traumatic Brain Injuries: 101 Inspirational Stories of Hope, Healing, and Hard Work. Maybe you'll be able to maneuver your schedule so you can pop-by one of these Book Signings in Tyler, Jacksonville, or Arlington -- [...]
Today, I heard a friend say something that really stood out to me... He was talking about his job and all the changes and beginnings, and in the midst, I asked him what GOD had shown him through all of this, some "basic of life" that stood out to him or kept coming back to [...]
Near this time (6:40-ish) on the evening of June 18th, 2002, the path of my journey made a sharp turn that I didn't see coming! After "my lights had been turned-off" and my body lay in a coma, my severely damaged brain didn't begin its slow crawl toward the long and massively labored "life-class" of [...]
Baylor Health Care System has produced another state-of-the-art video, showing its commitment to helping us brain-injured victims, their spinal cord patients, and others. Enjoy this 8-minute video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1E3GcMahVI&feature=youtu.be
