The Walk Through God’s Green Fields

In mid January I received a call from a very Godly woman whose husband is a Deacon at a great church about a half hour’s drive away. She cut right to the chase, “Cecil, God has put a burden on me about you and He is not going to leave me alone until I tell [...]

Throughout the trial I suffered even though I was fogged with pain, somehow I managed to remain in the promises Jesus preached in his first public sermon. The Beatitudes.  Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted…Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled…Blessed are the merciful [...]

The other day I was in the grocery checkout, second in line.
While unloading my cart I noticed the person in front of me was moving very slowly. An elderly woman bent and ravaged with osteoporosis. I kept unloading my cart and settled myself down for a longer than average wait in the checkout.
Still unloading, with [...]

After Kim and I moved to Madisonville in the fall of 2005, my first job was a temporary position at a local auto parts plant sorting parts which would not last more than three months.
I was so thankful; I promised God I would dedicate my time there to Him in whatever ways he wanted. There [...]

The Lord is moving in my life in ways I could have never dreamed or remotely imagined. If almost four years ago, when I was living in Jacksonville Florida, captive in a prison built with my own hands and living a life without God (for those of you who are new readers I wrote about [...]

Less than a week after I fished Michael out of jail in one county, he was in jail in another. From what I can ascertain, these two different charges were on outstanding warrants a year or so old. He had a court date for the first charge in about ten days.
When he was picked up [...]

Five days after Michael’s baptism he became uncharacteristically quiet.
He would usually call me a least three times a day to check in and ask me to give him more scripture to read. That particular day, I had only heard from him once. At seven-thirty in the evening I started calling his motel room. There was [...]

It is Easter Sunday morning. I spent time on my knees thanking God for the work he sent Jesus to do on my behalf and mankind’s.
The conspiracy. The betrayal. The puppet court. The beating. The mocking. The flogging. The brutal death. The glorious resurrection on the third day.
In my walk with God, I should be [...]

I picked Michael up at his motel at nine fifteen as promised. He was beaming. At the church I took him to the adult Sunday school class and introduced him to my Brothers and Sisters in Christ. They welcomed him warmly then I went upstairs to my Sunday school class where I teach the youth.
My [...]

It is Saturday. I have the day to myself. My wife Kim left the morning before with four other Godly women to attend a woman’s conference in Louisville. They took along a cooler of Diet Mountain Dew and a large bag of Rice Krispy treats for refreshments on the way. I hoped I don’t end [...]