Today, the St. Paul Pioneer Press did a touching piece on a memorial to Minnesota soldiers who died in Iraq.

Savannah Anderson, the 4-year-old child of Hannah and deceased Pfc. Joshua Anderson of Jordan, is pictured in an online slideshow touching her father's boots.

"She doesn't know he's dead," Hannah is quoted as saying. "All she knows is he's not here."

See the slideshow at http://www.twincities.com/ci_8630512?source=email.  

On a daily basis, believers and nonbelievers alike struggle with one main demand made by God -- he requires his followers to live on his terms.

Recently, a friend told me he plans to live on his own terms, not necessarily by what the Bible teaches. Although he professes a belief in Christianity, he knows that his lifestyle isn't focused on God. His plan is to repent on his death bed.

I recently lost someone dear to me, a family friend whom I've known for many years.

The black fly that's been tormenting me all summer long is finally dead.

Recently, I've been "reading" this somewhat new kind of audio book. They are called Playaways.

This morning I saw a pickup truck with a dead possum in it. It threw me at first, because I wondered what kind of person would carry around a dead possum in the bed of their pickup truck. Then I wondered if maybe the possum wasn’t dead when it found its way into the bed of the truck, and that it had died somewhere along the road. Either way,  the possum looked a little sad. Of course, I would be sad, too, if I was dead in the back of a pickup truck.