Thoughts from My Personal Journal

THOUGHT: April 28, 2020

My most important position, and my most important responsibilities, in life revolve around my position as husband, father, and grandfather. I hope to add great-grandfather to that list in the not too distant future.


THOUGHT: May 10, 2020

This is my first Mother’s Day on this earth without my mother. I am praying that she is happy and enjoying her situation immensely.


THOUGHT: May 22, 2020

I believe two responsible parents can raise a child a lot better than any village can raise a child.


THOUGHT: May 31, 2020

What kind of education should we want for our children? I want them to have the ability to read well, write effectively, count correctly, understand the Bill of Rights, and speak convincingly.


THOUGHT: June 25, 2020

Giving everyone a trophy does not make all of them winners. It is a poor substitute for responsible parenting and actually makes all of them losers. It will produce a generation incapable of developing genuine self-esteem.


THOUGHT: July 10, 2020

If you raise your children right, then you can spoil your grandchildren. If you spoil your children, then you will have to raise your grandchildren.


THOUGHT: July 11, 2020

Genuine love takes feelings to a higher level, a level of commitment.


THOUGHT: July 13, 2020

Love must grow out of imperfect situations, or it grows not at all because there are no perfect situations. There are no perfect situations because there is no perfect person, much less two perfect people who happen to develop a relationship with one another.


THOUGHT: July 14, 2020

Love overlooks the imperfections.


THOUGHT: August 4, 2020

Unborn lives matter.


THOUGHT: September 23, 2020

Observing the birthdays of my 19 grandchildren makes for a continuous reminder that life is truly short.


THOUGHT: October 20, 2020

I know of no sounds that are more pleasant than the sound of young children laughing.


THOUGHT: October 22, 2020

I fear there are many a husband who tells his wife he loves her only over the pulpit and on social media.


THOUGHT: January 17, 2021

I could have grown a vegetable garden without my children’s “help,” and probably easier. But I love my children and want them to learn, grow, and progress. God can do His own work without us, definitely easier. But he mostly does His work through men and women, all of whom He loves. He loves His children dearly and He wants them to learn, grow, and progress.


THOUGHT: January 27, 2021

It is good to entertain some company in your home from time to time so that you will be motivated to clean it.


THOUGHT: April 12, 2021

In today’s society, there may be more family meals consumed in a vehicle than at a dinner table.


THOUGHT: May 9, 2021

When I think of my mother on Mother’s Day, I think of her sweetness and her lemon pies.


THOUGHT: May 14, 2021

I’m not the crazy one. I’m not the one that married me.


THOUGHT: July 4, 2021

The more maturely we treat our children, both young and old, the more maturely they act.


THOUGHT: September 21, 2021

Maintaining our freedom does not have its foundation in the political debates of the public square. It is preserved by our conversations with our children in our homes. That is why freedom can be lost in only one generation of neglectful or misguided parents. That is one of the reasons why the family is the basic and most important unit of society.


THOUGHT: October 12, 2021
 
Those who delay marriage and family for too long can unintentionally close the door to marriage.
 
 
THOUGHT: December 18, 2021
 
Positive trajectory is vitally important. My father was a better father, I believe, than was his father. I was a better father, I believe, than was my father. My sons are better fathers, I believe, than I was. That is a trend I pray will continue into the eternities.
 
 
THOUGHT: December 19, 2021
 
Give this idea some thought: We have a heavenly father and a heavenly mother, and our heavenly parents are married.
 
 
THOUGHT: January 4, 2022
 
Parent to Adult Child: “Since you have demonstrated that you are smart enough to figure out what I did wrong in raising you, then you are smart enough to figure out how to overcome it.”
 
 
THOUGHT: May 8, 2022
 
Today we honor our mothers. My mom has always been there for me—whether I wanted her there or not.
 
 
THOUGHT: June 12, 2022
 
I can love an individual gay person, although I cannot help but pity him or her. However, I despise the unnatural which the LGBTQ-plus do as a community. They tout, flaunt, celebrate, and praise the betrayal of divine teachings and the breaking of sacred covenants, ironically using openly at times the word “pride.” They pretend to be smarter than God who has unequivocally established the proper and correct pattern for happiness in family life.
 
 
THOUGHT: July 19, 2022
 
A child’s accomplishments only add to the glory of the child’s parents.

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