By Brenda Black Getting caught up in the moment makes a memory stick in your mind. Sounds, sights, and songs each have a mysterious quality that burrows its way into the recesses of the brain and the very soul of … Read More
By Brenda Black Warning: For the more stoic, this may be difficult to read. I’m a hugger and a crier and a share your pain, feel your pain, walk through your pain with you kind of gal. So for those … Read More
By Brenda Black Easter: Bountiful baskets filled with pastel painted eggs, soft bunnies and girly bonnets. Easter: A solitary tomb filled with a broken body, grave clothes and surrounded by weeping friends. Easter: Death by chocolate. Easter: Life through the … Read More
By Brenda Black If Hollywood ever gets ahold of this story, they’ll have a movie blockbuster. The plot pits once dear friends against one another in a struggle for power and fame, interlaced with noble loyalty and insanity. The hero … Read More
By Brenda Black When it feels like the world is falling apart around you, it probably is. Everything is subject to deterioration. From boards to bricks to brains and bones, the world is aging. God created man originally to live … Read More
By Brenda Black “Pastor Nadarkhani has done nothing more than maintain his devout faith, which is a universal right for all people,” the statement released by the White House read. “That the Iranian authorities would try to force him to … Read More
By Brenda Black The cross – An instrument of torture used to execute a Savior. Foolishness to those who don’t believe and freedom to the faithful. A work of art down through history; a means of murder to ancient Romans. … Read More
Death of a SalesmanBy Brenda Black I quickly turned the channel the other night. I didn’t want to see a woman dismembered by the cranking, torturous pull of winched chains secured to shackles that clamped each of her arms and … Read More
Counting the CostBy Brenda Black Memorial Day originally honored the Civil War dead that numbered more than 620,000 men. Each May since 1868, America’s freedom-grateful acknowledge their fallen protectors with quiet prayer, vivid floral wreaths and ceremonious events. Try as … Read More
Counting the CostBy Brenda Black Memorial Day originally honored the Civil War dead that numbered more than 620,000 men. Each May since 1868, America’s freedom-grateful acknowledge their fallen protectors with quiet prayer, vivid floral wreaths and ceremonious events. Try as … Read More