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In many ways, YES! And in more than one place I have used the following Tolkien quote in relation to my nearly 7 years of continuous exploring the most magical place on earth to me – Costa Rica! “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you …
Surely I’m describing Costa Rica and I could be . . . though this time it is the title of a documentary biography I found on my new streaming service, Curiosity Stream, that replaced Netflix for me, permanently this time with a whole year of streaming costing less than one month of Netflix (a stripped …
Freshman Year In fact, this just may be the real or best story of my freshman year at the university! My first plan was to print all 75 letters here after I cropped and cleaned up the photos, but it would take too much memory here and they will be bigger and easier to read …
It is Wednesday afternoon and I got home about noon today from Hospital La Católica in downtown San Jose, our big, busy congested city and National Capital, about an hour and half drive in reality, though most people say about an hour. 🙂 I have no car and thus use my regular drivers here for …
Without a doubt, BSU was one of the biggest influences on my life development or directions of any one thing, person or activity! Of course it was tied into the big influence of Willis and Gary who were really responsible for getting me so involved. But it was more than just them! This was the …
Probably all friends have an influence on everyone’s life and life decisions, but it seems that these are the first two to have as much influence as they did, maybe the biggest influence on the biggest turning point in my life, going from medicine to ministry. I will never forget Willis Moore and Gary Stringer! …
There were so many factors involved in my vocational future changing while at OU that it is hard to know where to start or pinpoint why. But by the end of my freshman year I really thought that the “real me” had come out and that I was being “called” by God into some kind …
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The moment my parents dropped me off at the dorm and drove away, it seems everything was swirling around me with so much to do do so quickly it was easy to be overwhelmed, but also the environment, so many cursing, drinking “wild” boys in the dorm from my perspective and no close friend anywhere …
Since I was a high school boy when Mom gave me that book The Power of Positive Thinking for Young People by Norman Vincent Peale, I have made being positive a part of my life philosophy and really a part of my personal faith in God and the act of following Jesus. It is kind …
Or do I say “occupation” or “profession” or “work” or one of so many descriptions of what we all do to earn money, our livelihood if you please! It is necessary to live and I’m one of those strange persons who loved all of my jobs (at least at the time I was doing them) …