The Inspiration When my wife Laurie and I moved to California over thirty years ago our first friends were Kirsten and Ted. Thirty years later we were at her bedside as she was dying. We were part of their family, and we were together for almost every holiday meal or family get-together. In these last days we would visit her in her home, hospitals, convalescent… Read More »The Journey Home
The Inspiration The day before my friend Kirsten passed away, I had a half-dream of her passing through the gates of heaven. Heaven looked like transparent colors with the thousands of colors of the rainbow. I watched her as she walked through the gate straight to the rose bushes ahead of her. She herself a spirit of beautiful colors still recognizable as Kirsten merged into… Read More »My Last Breath
The Inspiration Talking to my sister Janet on one of our weekly calls, she mentioned her daughter Denise’s birthday was in November. Her name provoked memories of the first day my sister placed her as a newborn in my arms when I was only seventeen. My past anger of my father’s death and my mother’s sickness and death left me for a few hours as… Read More »Blessings for Your Birthday
The Inspiration This was the first poem I wrote after looking at my prior years. I had just completed writing my memoir manuscript at age seventy-six, and I could see how clearly God prepared me to hear His word. I could now see the lost years were not lost at all, but I was guided to the arms of Jesus down a crooked road. The… Read More »Not Forgotten