by Average Joe | Jul 9, 2016 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Family Matters
Do you care? What are you going to do about it? The words rang in my ears as a young black woman shouted at my son and me and a friend as we were leaving a baseball game and passing through a small but loud and raucous black lives matter protest in Greensboro, NC...
by Average Joe | Jun 29, 2016 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Peace Secrets, Work Stress
Ignoring imperfections can be very hard for us perfectionists. I pride myself on doing things right and being efficient with every second of the day. That trait creates horror though; when I mess up. My wife was disgusted with me as I packed my travel bag for this...
by Average Joe | May 15, 2016 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Family Matters, Peace Secrets
Standalone Ready!What a great joy to see your son or daughter cross into the threshold of adulthood on high school graduation day. Yet at the same time inside your gut, it is welling up with fear and anxiety as they head off into the vast uncertain universe. ...
by Average Joe | Apr 29, 2016 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Family Matters, Peace Secrets
Did you even wonder what would happen if you had no sleep for days? Our cover picture is a drawing my creative son drew when we asked him to depict what his thoughts were, during and after, his brain breaking traumatic experience. For he and all of us, it was...
by Average Joe | Apr 27, 2016 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Family Matters, Featured
N(not) another, my kid is great story. Time flies by so quickly and for a parent before we know it our baby is an adult. With the permission of my one and only son, I have the honor of telling two stories of his miraculous life. I start first with that little doubt...
by Average Joe | Mar 25, 2016 | Faith Increasers Stories & Numbers, Peace Secrets
Of all the Days! It is Good Friday. Today I’m coming out of the closet. (Please note – I wrote this 3 years ago exactly on Good Friday 2013, but was in my ‘I’m too fearful to go public with my writing days’. This is it in its...
