Observers welcome quiet opening to Legislature

The Texas Legislature opened quietly, which delighted everyone after the violence inside the U.S. Capitol the previous week. At the Texas State Capitol, a variety of legislative agendas took center stage at the start of the 87th session, which will run 140 days. Gov.

Old Glory News

Well another week has gone by and things seem to be getting worse. More folks around here have gotten sick and more funerals have been held. Please pray for all the ill and families of the deceased. Pray for our country. No activities and still afraid to leave home, so no news.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"It is a tragedy, perhaps, that human beings can get so much energy and enthusiasm from hate. If you want to feel ten feet tall and as though you could run a hundred miles without stopping, hate beats pure cocaine any day.

2 CENTS WORTH

Wasn't the snow out of this world awesome Joe took pictures to send to Ann and Korel so they could see them. Korel said, "I don't ever remember snow like that," She loves the cold weather and we tease her she needs to live at the North Pole.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government,...

WRITER'S CORNER

Pray for someone It doesn't matter who. As you go through your day lift someone up in prayer. Ask God to show you the person that needs help. Whether it is a kind work, food, helaing, vehicle, perhaps a warm home. Focus on God.

Faces & Places

“The fetus wished to live. Stubbornly, sometimes astonishinglythe fetus struggled to live. But the power of its life-or its death-had to reside with the mother. No other alternative was possible.

It’s Still Okay to Not Be Okay

WARNING: this essay might be a difficult read. It is an important read, though, for each of us. (I published this essay just a few months ago in September 2020. As I started writing today’s intended essay, I felt a nagging urge to re-publish this essay.

GOING BACK HOME TO MERKEL

There must be a strong pull for people who grew up in Merkel, left to have successful careers, then returned to their hometown. I met a bunch of them recently. They are confident, poised and happy to be back home. One is a former NASA scientist who is now writing poetry.

Reach across the aisle in the spirit of Lincoln

I don’t think I’ll find many that will disagree that our nation is in turmoil. From an election that a large minority of our friends and neighbors feel was stolen, to an assault on our nation’s Capital, the concern about what will come next is eerie.