by Andy & Renie Bowman | Mar 8, 2023 | Cautionary Tale, Personal Growth, Wisdom
Everyone knows how to procrastinate – including me. I decided about two months ago to write this column. Finally, today I had to force myself to sit down and begin. Why? Why do we humans put off doing what we know we need to do? From what I have observed, the animal...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Mar 1, 2023 | Cautionary Tale, Faith, Personal Growth, Wisdom
Saw the movie “THE JESUS REVOLUTION” yesterday. Amazing how seeing scenes and hearing phrases from decades before can instantly transport a person back in time. I was a young teenager living in rural Oklahoma during the years of the Jesus Revolution. Very isolated and...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Feb 22, 2023 | Family, Parenting, Personal Growth, Wisdom
The little preschool-age girl, living on the farm with her siblings and parents, lived in constant fear of going outside to play. The reason for her terror? Their male goose (called a gander for those who are not up to snuff on geese) thought it great fun to chase the...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Feb 15, 2023 | Marriage, Parenting, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wisdom
Kids, even the adult versions, display the effects of the greatest influences in life…their parents. It can show up in being a mirror image of a parent, becoming similar in actions and reactions. Or it can have the opposite effect. Sometimes, a person may decide that...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Feb 8, 2023 | Family, Marriage, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wisdom
You hear a lot of ‘loving’ being mentioned. “I love my truck…my chocolates, my family… playing golf…going to the movies, drinking beer, etc.” You name it, each one of us has someone or something that we say we love. Really? The dictionary explains the word ‘love.’...
by Andy & Renie Bowman | Jan 25, 2023 | Faith, Personal Growth, Relationships, Wisdom
Years ago, as elementary students at a tiny country school, our bus driver took us to school in his huge station wagon. That meant we kids got to talk with him for an entire hour – both ways. Good-natured and chatty, he would entertain us as he drove. True stories,...