Author: Dean Peters

Plans The old saying, ´if you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans´.  I kind of plan, but with a very loose hold on things.  God does what He wants, when He wants to.  I have a general idea, but have learned over the years to just go with the flow. Great News! […]

Smiling AND A TRIP TO THE STATES I think a person´s best attribute is their genuine smile.  Their worst attribute is their false smile. When salesmen are under pressure, they can´t smile naturally.  Superstitious people say that when they are having a loosing streak in sales, they have ´commission breath´.  People can smell desperation they […]

Sticks-Stones Sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you.  Yet another ´wives tale´ has proven to be wrong.  In my opinion, sticks and stones are a lot more civilized.   Life and death are in the lips, said King Solomon.  What we say to others, as well as to ourselves […]

Neighbors Burton Ohio has THE BEST NEIGHBORS in the world. When I was a kid,  I was taught that Jesus said we should LOVE OUR NEIGHBORS AS OURSELVES.  I thought ´THAT´S EASY´!  I can still remember the laughter of the people in Burton Ohio who lived next door to us.  All of us kids played […]

10Jul14 PureHeartChildren HOMELESS The only way to love someone is to actually learn and care about them. The only way to do that is to spend time with them. Make them feel at home, even if you´re not in a house. You have to actually talk to them, and listen to what they tell you. […]

Givers Paul said he was glad that he learned both to be abased and to abound. Once Dean Jr said, ‘ok I have the abased part down pat, so when do we abound?’…. A popular myth is that there are two types of people out there. Givers or takers. Some give a lot. Others take […]

Memories video of the Jim Winner Home (we got grass!) 57 years of memories. Some good. Some bad. However the memories are only of how other people made me feel. or how I mad others feel. Bullies, deaths, combat, babies, love, betrayals etc leave trillions of memories caused by people. I remember when my little […]

bEtter > The word ‘I’ is the difference between bItter and bEtter (Mike MacIntosh) > > We all want to get better. Life is more bearable and mistakes are forgivable knowing that there is always an opportunity to become better. That´s the joy of living a christian life, knowing that there´s always tomorrow, and we […]

DAYS Special days, days off, holidays and religious days hold no appeal for me. Especially in the summer. Maybe because I have flashbacks of my dad mowing the lawn wearing only shorts, knee high black dress socks and wingtips on his days off. Wintery or rainy days seemed a little more special, but not very […]