There are things that we should address. If we don't address them properly and call them for what they really are ...these issues may slowly and slowly take over portions of our lives, and begin to reign.

Often we make claims of oversights, rationalize ...then make excuses, and maybe even cover-up.

These are reasons too ...but not good ones, and not acceptable to me.

When someone says, "He wouldn't have done it without a reason."  Well, perhaps the reason is simply the fact that slowly and gradually we feel confident enough to go through life on our own ...or perhaps not confident enough to go on at all.  If we do not look towards God to guide our thinking ...someone else will.

And that may seem like a small reason, yet it often brings shocking and devastating results ...and we desperately ask "Why?"  Most of us, at one time, may have known the answer ...or had been close to knowing the answer, but we often do not exercise proper follow-up on correct things.

Samuel J. Butcher ...Precious Moments artist

The birth of Jesus would have meant little, if He had not died on the cross.

He would have been depicted as merely another good man.

And we'd have no true hope.

Sadly, this is how many do depict Him.

And they put their hope in so many fleeting things.