Monthly Archives: August 2019

Imagine sitting in a comfy armchair reading a book about flying an airplane. When you’ve finished reading the book, you are in exactly the same place. You haven’t flown anywhere. The same thing can happen reading the Bible. A person … Continue reading →

Today, my sister Doris sent me a first day of school photo of her two precious granddaughters. Standing on their front deck, all shiny and smiling, excited to get back into the classroom, they were both weighed down with gigantic … Continue reading →

I have trouble relaxing. It’s hard for my body to “let go.” A high school gym coach tried to use me to demonstrate how to expel water from a drowning victim’s lungs. I was lying face down on a mat … Continue reading →

I recently had to go to an orthopedist for a shoulder injury incurred when I fell off my bike. Paulette and I couldn’t help but laugh at a sign posted in his waiting room that said, “Unattended children will be … Continue reading →

One of the things I love about the English language are the homonyms and synonyms. Words sounding or spelled the same yet having different meanings.  Present is one of those, with the addition of a different inflection changing the definition. … Continue reading →

I looked to the horizon; the sea was mighty and deep. I listened to the roar; the churning breakers never ceased. I stood in the shallows; the waves broke and pulled fiercely back out to the sea. In that moment … Continue reading →

David is credited with writing perhaps as many as eighty of the psalms in the Book of Psalms. He obviously had no knowledge of the singing brother and sister of a few recent decades ago, Richard and Karen Carpenter, known … Continue reading →

A message from our friend Helen When you see “lifetime guarantee” on a product, do you wonder whose lifetime- the consumer, the product, or the producer? The lifetime of any of these could be today, ten or twenty years from … Continue reading →

Do you have someone in your life that you would describe as an Everyday Saint? Someone who emulates that words of Jesus Christ. Someone who demonstrates by actions the lessons of Christ. Someone who tries even in the face of … Continue reading →

Hot enough for you? Maybe I can cool things down by talking about Christmas. Remember this verse in the Christmas story: “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; … Continue reading →