by Debby Efurd | Oct 30, 2016 | The Second Mile
I can’t count the number of speeches, lectures, and sermons I’ve heard in my life. If I had to put a number to it I’d guess about a million (well, maybe not that many; math has never been my strong suit). I tune out the first half of all of speakers and tune back in...
by Debby Efurd | Oct 23, 2016 | The Second Mile
In a single moment a person can find plenty of reasons to be discouraged by the culture of today. Several decades have passed since truth became subjective and morality left to individual interpretation. The result has been a slow erosion of values as our Western...
by Debby Efurd | Oct 16, 2016 | The Second Mile
Fall is my favorite season of the year. Cooler than the summer months, it gives me a reprieve from the hot Texas summer with time to enjoy family and outdoors. There was a cool fall breeze last night as I enjoyed two games at two different softball tournaments with...
by Debby Efurd | Oct 10, 2016 | The Second Mile
It’s funny what you remember during difficult times of your life. Three years ago, it wasn’t the multiple surgeries or the lengthy recovery periods during my cancer diagnosis that stay with me. What I remember with clarity are the nurses who gave selflessly to make...
by Debby Efurd | Oct 2, 2016 | The Second Mile
When I graduated high school (in the olden days), the #1 book on the New York Times Bestseller List was Alvin Toffler’s “Future Shock.” Toffler devoted himself to predict life in the future with political and technological changes coming at us in ever-increasing...