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Bonded By Fire! A Knecht 4th of July Tradition!

No one ever reads the terms and conditions when you download a piece of software from the Internet. You check the little box without a second thought, not realizing that you may have just signed away your birthright, your home and your first born child. Why would we read it? This would take way tooContinue reading “Bonded By Fire! A Knecht 4th of July Tradition!”

Substack = suckstack

After receiving a bazillion substack emails this morning from a bazillion different people writing about a bazillion different things that I’m supposed to enjoy, I deleted my account. I hate the frenetic pace of it all. Everyone vying for my attention so I will click subscribe and pay them to send me emails. It’s allContinue reading “Substack = suckstack”

A Very Dead Man

The silence was loud and expectant, the darkness deafening. A darkness that could be felt. The room, silent as a tomb. There was only but a faint light, a small hope. Nothing moved. The great expanse held its breath. A dead man lay on a bed, the physician standing next to him. The glow illuminatedContinue reading “A Very Dead Man”

“…and she gave birth…”

A Child is Born “While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son, wrapped him in strips of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for him at the inn.” This is the account of the birth ofContinue reading ““…and she gave birth…””

A Letter of hope written to a Depressed Friend

Dear Friend, I just wanted to write to give you my testimony of a work that God has done in my heart, a work that I thought would never happen. I think you and I may have some similarities  and wanted to encourage you as a brother.  I moved into a Christian boarding house in 1987. IContinue reading “A Letter of hope written to a Depressed Friend”

Somewhere Over A Rainbow

There is only one thing better than catching a fish on a fly that you created and that is netting the fish your daughter just caught on a fly that she created. You sat shoulder to shoulder with her as she learned the ancient art of fly tying and now here you are on theContinue reading “Somewhere Over A Rainbow”