by jamesbondly | Sep 15, 2023 | About Life, Spiritual
Desperation A report from the Costs of War project at Brown University revealed that 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the U.S. an estimated $8 trillion and have killed more than 900,000 people. America has given roughly $76 billion in support to Ukraine, which has...
by jamesbondly | Aug 27, 2023 | About Life, Spiritual
I was born in 1950, and my formative years and schooling until 1969 when I joined the Navy to avoid the Vietnam draft. It was the age of TV “Father knows best,” ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ “Dick Van Dyke Show,’ ‘I Love Lucy...
by jamesbondly | Aug 15, 2023 | About Life, Spiritual
Deception & Self Deception Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times, some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons—1 Timothy 4:1 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and...
by jamesbondly | Aug 12, 2023 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual
FRAILTY THE REALIZATION OF AGE The photo above is not me; it is Walter at ninety-eight, a man who lived the good life and ran the race. Walter convinced me I could walk a marathon. I was seventy when I walked my first marathon, three years have passed, and I have not...
by jamesbondly | Aug 7, 2023 | About Life, Spiritual
WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY A letter to our Sons Ephesians 5: Walk in Love 5 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in Love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. 3 But...
by jamesbondly | Jun 19, 2023 | About Life, About Photography, Storytelling-Tall Tales
YouTube Homesteaders Homesteading without the hardship The civil war ended in 1865; Lincoln signed the Homestead Act in 1862. As the smoke cleared from the pain of seven hundred thousand dead, the rush for free land was on. So we colonized the territories, stealing...