Posts by Ron Perry
Finding Hope When We Look in The Rearview Mirror of Our Lives, Part 3
(Find Part 1 here and Part 2 here.) A few years ago, our family relocated here in Folsom. In our search for new housing, we read contracts and rental home requirements. We looked within documents for a full disclosure of our responsibilities for payment and requirements for living. Full disclosure helps us make wise and…
Read MoreFinding Hope When We Look in The Rearview Mirror of Our Lives, Part 2
Each of us has distinguishing physical features, including scars that are simply part of who we are. Each of my scars represents a story, involving either my foolishness or something that happened to me outside my control. Our past is like that! It is marked by scars that are the result of our foolishness and…
Read MoreFinding Hope When We Look in The Rearview Mirror of Our Lives, Part 1
Hello, my name is Ron Perry, and I have a past. My past consists of both good things and bad things. The mysterious difficulty of my past (and your past) is that the good things seem easy to forget and the bad things seem to be unforgettable. The good things in our lives are all…
Read MoreMentoring Our Next Generation
Jeno’s pizza, rock quarries, and filing cabinets are three items that to most people do not mean much of anything. But to me they symbolize times in my teenage life when someone mentored me. To this day, whenever I eat a Jeno’s pizza, I remember the graciousness and sacrifice of a young couple who invited…
Read MoreSpiritual Drought (3)
A lack of hydration and increased exposure to the elements can leave a person in a dangerous physical condition. As we noted in previous articles, heat exhaustion carries many parallels to spiritual exhaustion. A lack of spiritual hydration (the Word) and increased exposure to the elements (our worldly culture) can leave a person in a…
Read MoreSpiritual Drought (2)
A lack of hydration and increased exposure to the elements can leave a person in a dangerous physical condition. As we noted in the previous article, heat exhaustion carries many parallels to spiritual exhaustion. A lack of spiritual hydration (the Word) and increased exposure to the elements (our worldly culture) can leave a person in…
Read MoreSpiritual Drought (1)
When summer comes with its higher temperatures, so also comes the possibility of heat exhaustion. A lack of hydration and increased exposure to the elements can leave a person in a dangerous physical condition. Heat exhaustion carries many parallels to spiritual exhaustion. A lack of spiritual hydration (the Word) and increased exposure to the elements…
Read MoreTeachable Moments
“Dad, can I ask you a question?” In our house, we are in a season of parenting in which we hear this question frequently. On a recent, two-day camping trip with the girls, I counted a minimum of twelve times that they asked me that question. All children are naturally inquisitive. They are observing, processing,…
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