In 1976, my squad of soldiers and I were extracted by helicopter from the jungles of Panama while on an exercise near Fort Sherman in the Canal Zone. We were suspended by ropes 120 feet under a chopper using a technique called STABO (STAbalized BOdy Extraction). There are times in our lives when we
If we aren’t careful, we can get down a road in life that makes it hard for us to trust ourselves. How often do we do what we don’t want to do, and resist doing what we know we should do while coming to the realization that if we did what we should do instead of doing what we shouldnR
A friend of mine contacted me some time ago and told me, “And just as we talked yesterday about faith…seems like each time I get closer to what God’s calling for me, Something knocks me on my butt. Fighting battles in so many arenas right now. Must be doing something right if Satan
I talk to my wife on the phone whenever I leave my office and often a couple of times during the day. I love when we are able to do things together, without all of life’s distractions, so that we can just “BE”…..together. Why? To me, this is an expression of our love and trus
There are times that we have lost trust in someone we love or respect and times that we ourselves have done things to lose the trust of someone we care for. Broken trust can scar us and can scar others, deeply–all the more important it is to trust in God. We must understand that trust is not s
Trust is something that many of us have issues with: trusting other people, trusting ourselves sometimes, & ultimately trusting God. Trust is a shared belief that we can depend on each other to achieve a common purpose. Trust is something that is present in “degrees” (a little trust