A Clean Ranch is a Happy Ranch

March 29, 2008
One of the best things about Spring is being to open up the house and give it a good cleaning.  But even better than that is when you have someone else willing to do it for you!  This was the case for us this past weekend as we were once again blessed by [...]

Unpredictable

March 27, 2008
I don’t know that I have ever seen weather quite like it has been today.  Sunny and about 45 degrees this morning turned to cloudy, then rain, then thunder and lightening, and sleet and hail culminating with a low of about 30 degrees; all in 6 hours.  I guess it is true what [...]

Resurrection Sunday

March 23, 2008
“He is not here, but He has risen.  Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee (Lk.24.6). 
The words of Luke remind us that this is indeed a special day.  It is the day Jesus Christ completed the work He was sent here for.  He lived a perfect life, [...]

Kris’ Heart

March 20, 2008
My comments will be brief.  I want to introduce you to Kris.  He has been here several months and is trying real hard to make the changes he needs to make.  Sometimes he excels, sometimes he doesn’t; like most of us I guess.  That internal battle most of our guys go through, where [...]

How Do You Spell Relief

March 16, 2008
Back when I was a kid, there was a commercial where the question was asked, ‘how do you spell relief?’  The answer was, ‘r-o-l-a-i-d-s.’  Remember that one?  Take this little tablet, or two, or three, or four, and the pressure in your stomach will be gone.  Well, this past weekend, our boys got [...]

Boys Will Be Boys

March 11, 2008
What happens when you take 6 cabin-fevered teenage boys to the woods that has a river and the temperature hits 50 degrees.  Well, of course, they decide to take a dip!  Such was the case today when Mark and Andrew took Mark, Robert, Kris, Mike, Devontae, and Caleb to Humiston Woods, a short [...]

Getting It

March 6, 2008
I was in one of the cottages the other day, just hanging out and talking with the guys, when they began to compare being at Salem with some of the other places they had been.  One of the guys said he would rather spend four months at Salem instead of one month at [...]

Thinking Outside Ourself

March 2, 2008
Victor Frankl wrote a book many years ago entitled, The Will To Meaning.  He wrote this book out of his experiences as a Holocaust survivor.  What he found was that those who had something to live for, a will to meaning as he called it, more often than not were able to survive [...]