Family Talk with Dr. James Dobson

This weekend it was a deep joy and privilege to gather in a Pasadena church fellowship hall and mark an historic wedding anniversary.

In fact, the images of the happy young couple still linger in my mind--along with Frank Sinatra and Celine Dion's melodic rendering that played as the slide show took us through the years that have passed so quickly:

So, if you'll let me love you, it's for sure I'm gonna love you ... all the way ... all the way.

When Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen wrote the lyrics "who knows where the road ...

It takes wisdom to build a house,
   and understanding to set it on a firm foundation;
It takes knowledge to furnish its rooms
   with fine furniture and beautiful draperies.

                     Proverbs 24:3 / The Message

After 25 years in the same home, I've recently been thinking quite a bit about the "firm foundation" (or not!) of my house.   Between evidence of dry-rot, peeling paint, and screens pecked apart by those chirping birds I adore in the early hours of the day ... I'm wondering where my "wisdom" has gone!  It's time to get back to basics!

As you might ...

I've been thinking a lot about "family" this week.

A few days before John Wooden died, another hero was ushered into eternity.  My uncle, Harry Bascom, had finished a long day of construction work at a Christian camp and was just "cleaning up" when the Lord abbreviated his earthly shower with one of celestial cleansing.

Uncle Harry had been a missionary in Venezuela early in his life after serving our Country in World War II and then completing his higher education for Christian service at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (where he was one of the proverbial to ...