Dear Friends, Do you remember the Student Safety Patrols in elementary school? If chosen to be a student patrolman, you were outfitted with a belt that had a...
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Faith & Trust
Enduring Stability
Dear Friends, Stability…as in steady, strong, solid. The Empire State Building? The Rock of Gibraltar? Dover Dam? The triangle? Family units, stock market,...
Seeing Completely
Dear Friends, How do we "see"? A very generic description would be that the iris controls how much light the pupil lets in. Followed by the cornea, the lens,...
Life-Changing Words
Dear Friends, Some conversations change lives. Some change history or change both. The physician tells the family that "it's stage four and it's inoperable"....
God’s Pandemic Story
Dear Friends, The word wasn't in our vocabularies 18 months ago. Now Covid-19 dominates our thoughts and our conversations. It is mysterious, disruptive,...
God’s Grip
Dear Friends, Underwater and running out of breath. Holding on and desperate for oxygen. It feels like forever, yet it is likely less than a minute. The...
Taste and See
Dear Friends, There's nothing like the feel of warm sand on your feet or the fragrance of air following a spring rain. The crashing sound of Niagara Falls is...
Optics of Awe
Dear Friends, Optics, noun, "the way in which an event or course of action is perceived." For some, attending Dover High School could not have been more...
Keeping Promises
Dear Friends, In 1934 Earl and Lillian Congdon founded Old Dominion Freight Line with a single truck running between Richmond, VA and Norfolk, VA. Today they...
Holding it Together
Dear Friends, Magnets, holding notes to refrigerators and the USB cord to computers. As a kid I had two miniature metal magnetic dogs... one red and one...