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Donnie Floyd, Jeff Gordon

Donnie Floyd – Hendrick Motorsports Chaplain

A great podcast with an interview from my friend Donnie Floyd, in whom I am most proud. I’ve known Donnie for close to 20 years and I’ve been privileged to see his walk with God mature and come to where he is now with MRO. To leave a job he knew so well for the […]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day!

I know some moms. I know moms who have never had their own children, but are raising someone else’s. I know moms who have lost their children. I know children who have lost their moms. I know women who long to be a mom one day. I know women who have struggled to be a […]

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Bill Myrick, Rick Hendrick, Slick Poston (background), Mike Jarrett © Steve Matchett

Bill Myrick’s Wild Ride!

For his birthday today, I present: My dad rode in a NASCAR Winston Cup car at the infield road course in Charlotte Motor Speedway in the mid-80’s with crew chief Richard Broome as the driver. He hung on by just holding the roll bars on the passenger side, as there was no second seat. Things […]

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Sending tots and pears

Thoughts and Prayers

This isn’t funny to me. This meme is making fun of an overused Christian saying. I found this on the Internet the other day and instead of, “Thoughts and Prayers”, this shows, “tots and pears”. It is designed specifically to make fun of Christians. Current social media trends make great fun of Christians’ typical, generic, […]

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Brad Butler, Frank Edwards, Michael Myrick, John Stevens

Visiting Frank Edwards

Last week, a couple of my former employees and I went to visit racing legend Frank Edwards. We all used to work alongside him years ago. We like to get different groups together to go see Frank occasionally because he was such a prominent member of our team, and he lives so far away. For […]

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Billy Graham memorial sign in front of a Bojangles’ restaurant

Billy Graham and Bojangles’

One of the few heroes I’ve ever had passed away last week. Charlotte, NC born evangelist Billy Graham, while not a perfect man, was certainly someone to look up to. His dependence on the Bible made him the focus of some pointed criticism through the years, but I believe he spoke of what he read […]

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Billy Graham

Billy Graham

We went to pay our respects to Billy Graham at his library today. We were on one of the first few buses allowed in after President George W. Bush left. It is always very special to be at the Billy Graham Library, and particularly so this time as we said goodbye to someone who felt […]

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Passive-couldn’tcarelessive

Passive-couldn’tcarelessive

For much of my career I was passive-aggressive. I’d like to apologize to any former co-workers for that, and let you know I’m now passive-couldn’tcarelessive. I’m sorry and you’re welcome, all at the same time!

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Politics and Religion

Politics and Religion

I saw this photo on social media and thought I’d share it here. We can sure see people becoming increasingly contentious and angry about such things, with no apparent end in sight. My generation was told not to discuss certain things in public, with politics and religion being two of those. Seeing the current climate […]

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Bill Myrick on Page 52 of the July 1993 Winston Cup Illustrated

Vintage Bill Myrick

*Quick Summary: The author discusses various things about the past with his father, William Myrick.* I’ve always been proud of my dad, no matter what he did for a living. We were not “poor”, but saying we were lower-middle class at one point in time would definitely be fair. He did what he had to […]

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