Last week I (Georgette) asked Harry if I could use the Adoration Letter to say “Thank You” to everyone for their prayers and support, and to share some of what I went through prior to my heart surgery.  He told me that he thought it would be a good idea, and encouraged me to write this week’s article. When the doctors at Mayo Clinic told me in January of 2009 that I needed heart surgery, my attitude was, “Thanks, but no thanks.”  I had no intention… Read More

I have a rule that my teenage daughters are not allowed to download any songs from the Internet to play on their iPods until I’ve given my approval.  Do you know what I call the wires that come out of an iPod and connect onto the small earphones that go into a teenager’s ears?  Pipelines.  Here’s what travels through those pipelines: (1) sewage that is pumped directly into our children’s brains (and imaginations) that will eventually… Read More

Last week, after I published my article on The Two Greatest Desires, I happened to run into one of my cousins.  When I saw her walking toward me, I noticed the expression on her face.  It was one of those determined looks, a look that alerted me that she was about to give me a lecture.  How was it that was I able to read the look on her face?  She raised her family in the same neighborhood I grew up in, and during that time I had several… Read More

Last year an organization based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mission: Readiness – Military Leaders for Kids, published a report with the title, “Ready, Willing and Unable to Serve.”  I don’t know the date that the report was formally published because it didn’t give a date of publication.  All it had was a copyright of 2009. At the beginning of the report there was a message that was signed by seven retired generals of… Read More