I believe it was the summer of 1984. With the Soviet Union boycotting the Olympics, the United States was mopping up on the rest of the world in the Los Angeles, and Carl Lewis and Mary Lou Retton were on the front of Wheaties. Led by Jack Morris, Kirk Gibson, Alan Trammell, Lou Whitaker, Lance [...]
From what I’ve observed, God works in two ways: all-at-once and not-all-at-once. Because this may seem either obvious or contradictory, I’ll explain. (This is a blog afterall.) Let’s start with the creation of the universe. First off, how long was God planning it? For an eternity before time? Or did he improvise like a painter, [...]
Around here, we have something called the “List of Lists.” LOL for short…except there is very little laughable or loveable about it. Right now, we are in the process of figuring out what we don’t know. Specifically, we don’t know what we don’t know. Yes, that sounds like the title of a bad country song [...]
The last weekend of July, we had a good old fashioned barn-raising event at the Ranch. Eight men and six boys from Forum Christian in Columbia, Missouri, swept, scraped, trimmed, weed-whacked, and power washed a goodly portion of the 11,000 square foot residence and accompanying acreage. It needed a bit of TLC, and how better [...]
I’ve already said this once, but it bears repeating. We are in over our heads…and I’m not just talking about those of us who happen to be in the boys ranch business. If you are alive and breathing, you are in over your head also. I was recently reminded of this during a conversation with [...]