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Walker Moore

Most of us really don’t like to make a whole lot of decisions

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Not long ago, my wife and I ran into a situation we knew we’d experienced before. We got in the car to go to work, and she asked, “Do you have your glasses?” “No, I don’t.” I had to get out off the car, turn off our alarm system and walk upstairs to retrieve them….

Explore all possibilities before answering someone’s question

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When I was attending Bible college (I know some of you longtime readers are surprised that I studied the Bible, but it’s true), I had to take a class called “Christian Milieu.” It was taught by one of the most feared teachers in our school, Dr Richard Land. Since I am a country boy, I…

God can bring you strength to face those things that you fear

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A few years ago, when I returned home from the mission field, my wife had a surprise for me. No, it wasn’t a new car or computer. Instead, she had dismantled the dining room. And by dismantled, I mean … dismantled. She repainted the walls, ripped up the baseboards and moved out all the furniture….

Instead of saying, ‘Say what? – maybe you should say ‘Who?’

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Life in the Moore household is often comical, to say the least. Most of the time, it consists of two senior adults or two senior adults with three young grandchildren, and the conversations can get quite interesting. Just this morning, I walked from the kitchen into the living room, where my wife confronted me with…

Here is my strategic plan to keep me out of ‘purgadoory’

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Many years ago, Jay Leno had a segment on his nightly television show where you could send in a word that you had made up. If he liked it, he would read the word and its definition on air. I tried to get a new word on the show: “purgadoory.” Have you ever locked your…

Airlines need to think outside the box on international flight

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I have a gripe. I hate to start out in such a negative way, but I won’t feel better until I get this off my chest.  It happened several years ago, it was 5:30 in the morning and I was standing at the DFW airline counter with more than 40 students. Suddenly, the lady taking…

I am still praying for my new mysterious friend on the asphalt

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I had just come home from a funeral. I was upstairs changing clothes when I looked out of our second-story bedroom window to the street below. There, I saw a man kneeling alone in the road, hands folded, head bowed as if he were praying. Normally when I see a need, I move toward it,…

Sometimes it is easy to tell when something is just not right

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Too often, I look at something and the first thought that comes to mind is … that’s not right. I don’t know why, but I shake my head from side to side whenever that thought reaches my consciousness. Not long ago, a friend sent me a picture from a store that features souvenirs from the…

So much for me winning the ‘grandad of the year’ award

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I am usually the greatest grandpa who ever walked this earth — or at least I like to think of myself in those terms. But sometimes even the GOAT (in this case, the Grandpa Of All Time) has an off day. Titus the Honorable came to spend the weekend with us. I picked him up…

Are you nurturing someone’s natural curiosity today?

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Curiosity is the hallway that leads to the doors of adventure and discovery. I haven’t lost much of the curiosity I had as a child. I consider myself one of the more fortunate ones. In some ways, curiosity is what drives me. “What’s on the other side of that hill?” “Where does this road go?”…