The Preacher

With the downloaded divine wisdom of God, king Solomon wrote a letter to wisely inform the world. The name Ecclesiastes means preacher. In his meditations, the writer puzzled with how one could find happiness or contentment apart from God. Are the answers found in science, philosophy, wealth, music, or material wealth? Solomon’s wide search came…

Color me Free

Before we were born, God marveled at His plan for us. It was His pleasure to make us all delightfully unique. Then He picks our parents and brushes us with a true color that just blends in beautifully with others. As the Artist of all that is, He paints us into backgrounds that cause us…

Noel

Grim was the world, dark and grey. The moon and stars were fled,The hall was dark,without song or light,The fires were fallen dead.The wind in the trees was like to the sea,And over the mountains’ teeth, a whistled bitter-cold set free.  A word, like a sword leapt from its sheath. The Lord of the weatherraised…

Alley Family Roots

A Love Story in the Shadow of the Eifel Mountains, began in the small village of Shuen Ecken. In the heart of post-World War II Europe, an eager 19-year-old boy named Willis Earl Alley was the son of Vernon and Isa Mae. He was the middle child born into a tribe of 12 field workers.…

Sleepless

My heart is weary in the middle of the night. My restless soul awoke to a vivid dream, and without hesitation, I responded in my flesh, not by His Spirit. Angered, with “why this?”  I know my God sees me as His Spirit never departs from me.  Fully awake; I seek He who knows, and…