Everyday Insights and Real Life Stories

It’s really no secret that our most recent elections here in America have stirred up quite a bit of emotion on both sides of every debate in our country, just as they always do.  There are people weighing in from every corner of the world and people are being affected inside and outside of our borders.  This is nothing new for our democracy, though.  These same tensions and divides and problems have been around since the very beginning of our country and will not go away no matter who is elected or what decisions they make in office.  It’s just the nature of human imperfection and there will never be a perfect president, governor, congressman, policeman, teacher, preacher, or parent. But we have a perfect King. There are Christians on either side of every debate and most use some sort of scriptural basis for whatever it is that they might believe and, sometimes, it’s a good, meaningful verse.  A lot of times though, people on both sides of the struggle pull...

I was thinking the other day about trail riding on horses and how sometimes on the trail you have to take detours, and how sometimes that happens to us in our lives too. There are a lot of reasons to take a detour out on the trail. At times you come across a fallen tree that your horse can’t get over, or an ice patch your horse can’t walk over and you need to go around (or if you’re my dad, then you get tired of the mundane trail and take detours just for the heck of it) off the beaten path. Not taking these detours can be dangerous - if a horse breaks its leg, generally it has to be put down because horses can’t survive on just three legs very easily. When you come across obstacles like one of these, it’s usually best to just take a short detour through the woods until the trail is safe again. Other times, you might know of some beautiful clearing or old ruined building that’s not on the regular path. At times like these, a detour is necessary. The interesting thing about this is t...