Dayspring Ranch

04/15/2025

So much fun having friends and family here at Dayspring Ranch. His faithfulness is new every morning.

08/17/2024

You live in a golden age of unparalleled beauty and wonder, and someone is trying to convince you that you are not. Believe and enjoy.

Jewel, disguised as a mild mannered businesswoman, drops by a local karaoke bar and performs some of her classic songs to a completely dumbfounded audience.C...

07/05/2024

You're OK. There's no one behind you about to steal your food. Breathe. Relax.

05/24/2024

Happy Anniversary #32 to my #1 wifey, Jennifer Nadine Merrick. I hope I tagged her right, cuz she always asks, "Did you tag me?" And then she says, "The reason you're not getting views is because you didn't tag me and I am the one with all the friends."

Here's a video I made for you sweetie.

For my 32nd anniversary with the beautiful Jennifer Merrick, I give you a song about making it through the challenging times and emerging on the other side, ...

09/25/2023

Free Benefit Concert for Wildfire Aid featuring The Solution to All Your Problems, Rock Bottom, and Joe's Garage Band. Join us in beautiful Oakland, OR at 1 pm in the Oakland City Park.

04/11/2023

Sometimes it's through suffering that we relate to the forgiveness Jesus gave us through the cross. 2nd Corinthians 4:17 says "our suffering is light and tem...

03/07/2023

If you take the part of yourself you want to change and deconstruct it with hate, in the reconstruction you will have something new built with a mix of hate-filled bricks.

If you take the same part of yourself and deconstruct it with love, then in the reconstruction you will have something new built with love.

Love-filled bricks last much longer and make necessary reconstructions much easier.

Love your loving Creator. Love your loving Self. Love your neighbor.

01/15/2023

So it’s been 13 years today since my mother passed away. Wow. 13 years. I should be over it and moving on by now right? In fact I should have been ok and moving on after a year or maybe two? Am I behind in my grief? Why have friends stopped checking in? Why do conversations with people seem to avoid bringing up my loss? What I have learned is that Losing someone puts you in a special club. It’s a club that you really don’t want to be in but it’s a club that only members understand. If you have not lost someone close I know it’s hard to know what to do or say. Sometimes it feels awkward. But I am here to tell you what works for me. For me it helps when people share memories of my mother. A story of an adventure she went on. A memory on how good her peach cobbler was. Memories of her laughter. Memories of just her no matter what the topic. As the years go by I find my memories of her are fading slightly. Not all the way but just fading a little bit like an old photograph that hasn’t been preserved properly. What I want the most is for her memory to stay alive so for me (and I think for many others) please don’t be afraid to talk about someone’s lost loved one. Please continue to share the wonderful memories of what you remember.