Faces & Places

“Treasures are hidden away in quiet places. They speak in soft tones and often become silenced as we approach. They don’t beg to be found, but embrace us if we do happen to find them. They are the product of completely ordinary circumstances unfolding in wonderfully extraordinary ways.

FROM A COW TO A CROSS

When Tommy Womack was a boy, his family moved from El Paso to Amarillo. His daddy had just been discharged from the Horse Cavalry at Fort Bliss and had taken a job with the Santa Fe Railroad in Amarillo. Tommy started working in journalism.

WRITER'S CORNER

God thank you! for providing caring people to go into a town that was in dire of help in great sorrow for they heard your voice and obey. God Thank you! for providing a day of rest to worship and honor you. God Thank you! for providing precious rain for us and your animals God Thank you!

Type This

A few weeks ago, I was minding my own business when my wife tells me she wants me to take a test.

2 CENTS WORTH

Wonderful wonderful rain, got up and Joe's garden was full of water, got up the next morning and much to my surprise the garden was under water again!!!!! Sure did help the looks of those squash vines, I told Joe they may pay for their seed yet!!!!!

Nationwide Problems, Local Solutions

Last week’s essay about the perils of Gnosticism was one of the bestreceived essays I’ve written in some time. More important than any number of “likes” was to start conversations about how to be a person of both faith and works and influence the world positively.

LIVING IN THE ROUGH AT ELBOW

RC Reed grew up on a farm near Elbow, a tiny community a few miles from Big Spring. I asked him how it got that name. He replied, “Elbow Creek.” I asked him how Elbow Creek got its name. “Because it’s shaped like an elbow,” he said.

CHECK YOUR MIRRORS

Upon finishing one’s junior year of high school, students would benefit from a life skills curriculum.

Faces & Places

“I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. I was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in...well you try a little harder. You dream a little broader.

TEA directed to make schools safer

Gov. Greg Abbott has directed the Texas Education Agency to ensure school facilities are made safer in the wake of the killing of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary in Uvalde.