By DANNY MINTON You’re in a dark room. You take a match and strike it. You can hold the match on the end and watch as it slowly burns down to almost the tips of your fingers and then, as it nears the end, blow it out. At that point, the match is blackened and useless never to be used
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By DANNY MINTON Frederick Langbridge died in 1923. The one thing that he left behind that has had a lasting impression is a short poem he wrote. It simply says: “Two men look through prison bars;One sees mud the other stars.” It’s a simple little poem with a powerful message. Some people are never happy. They are always looking at
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON There is a box in my garage that has been sitting on the shelf for the past 10 years. It’s a white box with the words “coo-coo clock” written on the side. It was a wedding gift 50 years ago from my uncle. It’s sitting in the box because it’s broken, and I haven’t gotten around to
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By DANNY MINTON Max Lucado in his book, “In the Eye of the Storm,” tells the following story about Chippie the parakeet. “Chippie the parakeet never saw it coming. One second he was peacefully perched in his cage. The next he was sucked in, washed up, and blown over. The problems began when Chippie’s owner decided to clean Chippie’s cage
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By DANNY MINTON It was a school day, and he didn’t much look forward to going. After all, when you’re a young boy, there are a lot more things in life that are much more interesting than spending the day listening to boring teachers and the endless hours of lessons. So, when he noticed the commotion outside his house, he
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Growing up, my hometown of Plano was just a small rural community out in the middle of cotton farms and cattle where you could see for miles across freshly plowed fields and grazing pasture. It was 5 to 10 miles to the nearest town in any direction from downtown. The population in 1950 was 2,126. When
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By DANNY MINTON When the knock came on the door just as it was getting dark, I was taken by surprise as I saw two people about my size staring at me through plastic masks covering their faces. I was around three, and it was the first Halloween that I remember. I remember at that point my mother decorating my face
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Several years ago Disney produced a movie, “Love Leads the Way: A True Story.” It is the story of two characters. Morris Frank, a young man who at 6 lost an eye when he hit a tree limb riding a horse and then lost the other during a boxing mishap at the age of 16. The other
Read moreBy DANNY MINTON Sitting on my office desk is a glass case with a football from the 1965 AA state championship game inside. Resting on the case is a book entitled “The Best High School Football in the Country.” One step higher lying on the book is a baseball glove from my Little League years some 50 years ago. Move
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Spirit Of Abilene 