Random Acts and God’s Plan For Our Lives

New Year's Eve is a special time for our family.  We always enjoy sending the old year packing and welcoming in a fresh New Year.  Some years are a joy to see go while others have been like old friends we hate to see leave.  Since 2014 had been a so-so year, we simply waved "bye-bye" and shot off some fireworks.  We enjoyed the surrounding neighbors setting off some real beauties and I swear, some "booms" sounded like small pieces of ...

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Freedom to Live, Read and Write While Others Die Trying

I have been following the story of Malala Yousafzai, the teenager who was shot in the head by Taliban insurgents in Pakistan for wanting an education.  She is a hero to me.   She went toe to toe with the Taliban and lived.  She is now working to bring attention to the plight of the 200 girls that were kidnapped by a group of Islamist militants who go by the name of "Boko Haram".  This young lady who went through a near death ...

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