Faces & Places

“Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well.

Summer to-do list

It’s that time of year again. Here are your2024 summer assignments. 1. Write a letter and mail it. Get out of your car, go inside the post office, and ask to look at all the stamp options and buy one that suits the person to whom you are mailing the letter.2. Take naps.3.

High-end electrical users could strain grid

The growth of industrial-scale users of power could strain the Texas power grid, ERCOT’s chief announced last week.

Greg Brooks is a disc golf guru

Greg Brooks of Big Spring says he got interested in throwing Frisbees when he was in college.“We would just go out and try to impress the girls. They’d be out there sunbathing and we’d thrown the discs pretty close to where they were sunbathing.

DISAGREEMENT, CONFLICT, CONTROVERSY AND INFORMATION

Firefighters, police officers, military personnel, and various emergency response teams around the world use variations of what is commonly referred to as the “Incident Command System.

2 Cents Worth

Wow! what a rain, hail, kept me up all night nearly sure did mess up my sleep and I know all of you were the same. We got one and half inch here at the house, but when we went to church Sunday some of our friends east of us got four inches. That hail is what bothers me, sure can mess things up.

Letter to the Editor

Dear Editor, I believe the county judge wants to close the jail because of the cost. The jail currently is about four million dollars in debt due to outstanding bonds. The county spends four hundred thousand dollars a year on these bonds. The county currently has about 9.6 million in surplus funds.

DEBBIE'S CORNER

It is never easy to say goodbye to our loved one.Our hearts are riddled with grief. Tears fall God knows He captures every tear that is running down our face.He provided us with a comforter.The Holy Spirit that dwells within us.

The promise

Spring has brought the blessings of rain and the trauma of storms (twisters)in the past two weeks. Nature has her way of soothing us and scaring us.These are times, too, when the rainbow may grace the sky after such events. We know the promise it represents to those of the Christian faith.

Seasonal Limits

Living within seasons is not as simple as merely announcing our desire to do so. Last week, I observed that adjusting life to a seasonal-based approach would require adjustments over time. I gave an example of matching our diet to fit with the seasonal availability of certain fruits and vegetables.