Dear Wake Up Family: Several days ago, someone reached out to me and asked if I could help. She knew that Larry must have written an article on the subject of suicide and desperately needed to share it with a friend whose dad had taken his own life. Her dear friend was struggling with understanding…
Dear Wake Up Family: My grandparents adopted me in 1963. Back then, parents did that when their daughters were underage and unwed. I always called them mom and dad; I never knew them as anything else…until I was seven. One evening, about 10 days before starting first grade, mom had me come and lay beside…
Dear Wake Up Family: New Year’s Day historically is a time of reflection. A time for new habits, new beginnings, positive changes that take life in a new direction: something that redirects life so that we are now different than we were. A new birth, if you will. Recently, at a country store near our…
Dear Wake Up Family: If you were driving your car and came to a railroad crossing, its lights flashing and gates lowered, would you rush around them to be on your way? No one in their right mind would do that. A flashing red light means, “Danger! There’s trouble ahead. Be Careful.” Before the flood,…
Dear Wake Up Family: Most mornings, I start my day reading a chapter of the Bible. This morning I ended up reading several, which left me thinking about Paul’s experiences portrayed so vividly in Romans, Philippians, and Galatians. I think there must be hundreds of thousands of Christians who, like Saul, were brought up in…
Dear Wake Up Family: I preface my article this month with something Larry said in a seminar back in 2000. Ask yourself as you contemplate his words and my article afterwards, if the United States is becoming more righteous or more immoral as the years go by. I would also add that it is perfectly…
