You Are My Friends…

I remember when I first began teaching high school students thirty years ago. I was told never to smile before Christmas and to make sure they knew who was boss. I was quite young then, so there was "some" wisdom in those words. However, now as I teach our high school class at church, I see a nee...

Off the Beaten Path

"People often ask me why I take so many detours when I speak. I just tell them it's because those I'm trying to reach don't live on the highway." As a parent and an educator, I sat there thinking about how hard we try to get children to move onto the highway so that we don't have to put up with t...