by Andy & Renie Bowman | Oct 16, 2024 | Cautionary Tale, Faith, Inspiration, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wisdom
A grizzled old man observed with trained eyes and alert ears as the novice young man did his best to hold his own at a table filled with experienced, skillful gamblers and crooked card sharks. Needless to say, things were going from bad to worse. At the end of the...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Oct 2, 2024 | Cautionary Tale, Faith, Wisdom
Nope, don’t get your dander up (or your hopes up, depending on what you were hoping to read.) I am not going to write about naked bodies and the image that phrase seems to conjure up to people. The focus of this column, the nakedness I am writing about? Your future....
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Sep 25, 2024 | Cautionary Tale, Communication, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wisdom
Two-month-old Lydia suddenly feels uncomfortable, so she begins twisting her little head back and forth, whimpering, and when that doesn’t bring her mom, she begins shifting her body around. According to her beliefs, that lady-in-waiting has only one function in life...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Sep 18, 2024 | Cautionary Tale, Inspiration, Personal Growth, Wisdom
You’ve surely seen them. The people in your life that rarely look at the glass as half empty. To them, having a half-empty glass just means they can to fill it to the brim with whatever they choose. But to a person who is discouraged, depressed, and feeling...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Sep 11, 2024 | Cautionary Tale, Faith, Family, Marriage, Personal Growth, Wisdom
Jim sat down at his desk that morning only to be immediately summoned into his supervisor’s office. Where he was assured that while he had been doing good work, he was also told that due to the company’s economic struggles, he was part of the layoffs in one month....
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Aug 21, 2024 | Cautionary Tale, Communication, Faith, Family, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wisdom
The six-year-old insisted he go with Mom to see Aunt Jeanie. Never having visited a rehab facility before, he was quite excited with the prospect of seeing ‘Aunt J’s new home.’ He had heard his mom talking on the phone about the room where his aunt played with balls...