Getting a meal for $1.50 seems too good to be true these days. Even a kids’ meal for $1.50 sounds too good to be true, but not so at the Costco food court where for $1.50 you get a hotdog and a drink. This has been a great blessing to many people, but some changes…

Once, the founder of a family run popcorn company gave it over to his son. The son chose to package every kernel the company had into microwave bags of popcorn to sell thinking that he would make a lot of money, but when all the kernels were gone, the son had nothing left and the…

When you are sick someone needs to bring you medicine. When you are really sick, hiding it or trying to push through the symptoms makes things worse. Medicine takes the sickness away so that you can get back to playing, learning and living. We were all sick with sin even before we were born and…

When you hear the words “long car ride” words like “boring” or “Please, no” or questions like “Why?” or “Where are we going?” or even nonverbal things like eye rolling or heavy sighs follow. You are held captive during a long car ride until you reach your destination like the beach, an amusement park or…

Kids, I am sure that you got lots of candy and treats for Valentine’s Day. When you got home, I am sure that you were told to save the candy until after you eat your dinner, especially your vegetables. When you are put to the test to decide between candy and vegetables, it can be…

Kids fight to go to bed. They have all kinds of reasons to avoid sleep and they summon all their strength to resist, but the longer they go without sleep, the more angry, confused and weak they become. Eventually, even the most valiant efforts against going to bed fail, and the power of sleep takes…

When a child brings you a picture or playdough creation to look at, you tell them how good it is, and you may even put it on a prominent display in your home. Those creations come and go, but not your child because your child is more valuable than anything they create. When I say…

This is Optimus Prime. He is a Transformer. The Transformers are alien robots who disguise themselves on earth as cars or other modes of transportation to hide their identity. Their true form is a robot, but they hide for fear of being misunderstood as enemies and attacked. We often hide things about ourselves from others.…

When you hear the plastic crack as it hits the floor or see the pile of doll hair on the ground, your heart drops. One of the new Christmas presents is broken beyond repair and must be thrown out. Then the tears come as the meaning of loss hits a child, but the tears of…

Every year at this time, Christmas songs like “Jingle Bells” are not being played anymore. We will all have to wait another ten or eleven months until the Christmas songs return. It is sad when the Christmas music ends as the Christmas spirit of peace, hope, joy and love seems to go with it. There…