Author: Buddy McElhannon
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Finding God’s Will
I received a call from a young man last week. He asked for my prayers. Life has dealt him some tough challenges. That’s a generic way of saying that every day he faces an uphill battle against anxiety and depression, among other health issues. If this challenge were a mountain, you’d call it Mt. Everest. …
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A Book in Hand — The Lasting Legacy of Dolly Parton
This past month, the country, if not the world, lost an iconic, larger-than-life lady in the person of Dolly Parton. One truly incredible fact about Dolly that few people knew is that, through her foundation, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, she has given away over 300 million books, free of charge, to preschoolers worldwide. Currently, 1…
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Gobsmacked by Persephone
How could a red-blooded American male who grew up watching Westerns find himself gobsmacked by a four-episode romantic series set in 19th-century England with the un-macho-like title Seeking Persephone? I have some explaining to do. In my youth, I enjoyed all things Western. Yes, give me a Western with John Wayne, Gary Cooper, or Jimmy…
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Confessions of a Grumpy Golfer
I am a grumpy golfer. I blame it on a game with shots labeled shanks, duffs, topps, slices, hooks, lip-outs, chunks, and, let’s not forget, the dreaded whiff. No wonder I’m grumpy. Then again, as Lee Trevino once said, “Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out…
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Consequences of Transgressing the Sacred
The opening line of a Charles Dickens novel started with, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Today, in America, it is much the same, though I would add, it is a confusing time. Confusing? That’s too polite a word. Today’s secular message is a tale rife with false narratives,…
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A Father’s Prayer
The United States celebrates Father’s Day on the third Sunday of June each year. It is an annual salute to fatherhood and one sorely needed as fathers have, in recent years, been denigrated and often seen as unnecessary to a healthy family life. I have always taken my role as a father seriously. Throughout…
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Living Holy Saturday
Most people, especially those of the Christian faith, recognize the phrase “Holy Saturday” as the final day of Holy Week, falling between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. It commemorates the day Jesus Christ’s body lay in the tomb after his crucifixion, but before his resurrection. During this time, the followers of Jesus were in a…
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The Death of Dialogue
We live in a time when civil discourse and debate are a dying form of communication. Civil discourse is rarely civil these days, and it takes the form of social media monologues. What debate there is seems to be dominated by the extremists on the Left and the Right. Let’s be honest. Too many of…
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Reasons I Like February
Friends, Last month, I celebrated my 75th birthday. Between the emails, phone calls, and Facebook posts, I was overwhelmed with all the birthday wishes. Thank you for your thoughtful and kind comments. It made turning 75 so much easier. Well, sort of. This milestone birthday sparked an idea in the literary part of my brain,…
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