by Neal Eckert | Jan 28, 2017 | God's Love, Hypocrisy and Authenticity
Up for a unique story? Good. Because I promise you haven’t heard anything like this before nor will you ever again. My greatest fear is that you’ll think I made this up. That I just got a little too creative with the keyboard. Trust me, I’m not that creative. And if...
by Neal Eckert | Jan 25, 2017 | Children, Dealing With Pain, Heaven
Dear Jeffrey, You would’ve been four the year I was born and my only older brother. That’s not how it turned out, huh? It’s crazy to think that you died during birth, unable to experience even a breath outside the womb. You were only a word frozen in time to me as a...
by Neal Eckert | Jan 22, 2017 | Dealing With Pain, Heaven, Prosperity Gospel, The Church
Dear God, If you don’t want me to flip out, you need to do your job. I have a standard of living to keep up. With love, Your Spoiled American Child Difficult Questions “Where do babies came from?” I asked my mom. “You’ll find out someday,” she said. “But when?”...
by Neal Eckert | Jan 18, 2017 | My Story
Something’s Missing The pictures were torn from our large family Bible—Every last one of them. I was a disappointed little boy. In my mind, the best part of the book was missing. I studied the rip lines which held the faintest scraps of color, trying to imagine what...
by Neal Eckert | Jan 15, 2017 | Heaven
Ever find yourself panicking as you get older? You feel as though you haven’t squeezed everything out of life that you could have. Perhaps your life didn’t turn out anything like you planned. You didn’t achieve enough or see enough. Frantically grasping for...
