Preacher's Piece

My dad has a sign hanging over his desk that says: “These are the good old days.” So true. For the most part, we tend to look back on certain periods of the past in our lives with favor. These past few days we’ve had beautiful weather. My wife and I were discussing how it reminds us of when we were kids and the endless days of summer when we would work and play for hours in warm sunshine for days on end. We didn’t have to deal with gnats and we didn’t get a torrential downpour every other day. We’d bounce our way through the summer riding bikes, playing with cats, dogs, and calves, picking ber...