Monthly Archives: October 2024

It never occurred to me as a kid to dress up as Martin Luther for Hallowe’en. (By the way, that’s the way I was taught to write it when I was in school. It’s a contraction for Hallow Evening.) I … Continue reading →

“Slow down, you move too fast.”  The opening line to Simon and Garfunkel’s “The 59th Street Bridge Song” has been repeating in my head for the last couple of weeks. I have moved from the slow and steady pace of … Continue reading →

The one with the speech impediment is chosen to be the spokesman and leader of the Hebrews. The traitorous twin manages to wrestle away the birthright. The youngest, smallest son slays the giant. The “Sons of Thunder” are chosen by … Continue reading →

It was Halloween and home they came.  Their bags were filled with gobs of sugary treats.  Now came the sorting process, as they sat around the kitchen table going through their bag, putting aside the ones they really like and … Continue reading →

Legislatures passing a reform bill, delinquents sentenced to reform school, and going back to 1517, Martin Luther began his effort to reform the Catholic Church. Reform “means make changes in something, (typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.”  Martin Luther, … Continue reading →

I don’t think any of us want to hear the words “I told you so” when we have errored. We may have been warned by someone not to do something a certain way or at all for that matter, but … Continue reading →

I know that I write a lot about gardens. I love to watch the miracle of growth in any form. However, gardens present such a wonderful example of God at work, silently and skillfully in areas where we can easily … Continue reading →

My mother had an atlas that intrigued me because the area north of Alaska was marked “unexplored.” This was no ancient tome. When I was a child it was less than twenty years old. Even my 1952 Encyclopedia Britannica says, … Continue reading →

In Hebrew, the language of the Old Testament, the word for wait means to expect, to hope, to hang on. Sometimes our interpretation of wait is: inconvenience, untimeliness, aggravation, unpleasantness. In a Bible study once, I learned the answers for … Continue reading →

This could be another instance of how the English language can be so complicated. So many antonyms, synonyms, spellings that get “confuzzled” (that’s an Amy word). Sometimes the only way to have peace of mind is to give someone a … Continue reading →