Monthly Archives: June 2025

This man was a friend and colleague of Billy Graham. When Charles was eighteen, after a night of (ahem) frivolity, he knelt beside his bed. As he recalled later, it felt like “a black blanket was draped over me. Guilt … Continue reading →

We have the privilege of visiting a friend in a nursing home every week or two.  Her family is all living “up north,” so as friends of theirs, we gladly offered to visit her in their stead.  We were happy … Continue reading →

While you are thinking and a myriad of thoughts are going through your mind, your friends don’t know your thoughts. Your spouse might think they can read your mind, but they also don’t know your thoughts. The person next to … Continue reading →

We love because he first loved us.  1 John 4:19. God’s love for us certainly isn’t a response to our actions because if that were true, He would have plenty of reasons not to love us. We are not always … Continue reading →

Have you ever experienced a poke from God, while engaging in less than wise behavior? Oh, I don’t mean bad or sinful behavior. I get those all the time. I mean things like questionable eating decisions or watching movies into … Continue reading →

It is said if you really want to learn something you should teach it. That’s how I learned about Boniface (675?-754), an Anglo-Saxon missionary to what is now approximately the areas of the Netherlands and western Germany. The lesson about … Continue reading →

I was with my father at the National Gallery when he got to see one of his favorite paintings, “The Sacrament of the Last Supper” by Salvador Dali. It’s a striking work. At first you know what your are looking … Continue reading →

Two of my friends/neighbors I grew up with became enamored with kilns, due mostly to the fact that the mother of one of them had a ceramic business. When we became adults and went our separate ways, these two went … Continue reading →

Joy Cowley is a New Zealand based writer, known especially for her children’s books.   I came upon a morning prayer in her collection called Aotearoa Psalms.  Yes, I looked it up.  The word Aotearoa is the Māori word for New … Continue reading →

My sense of humor invades my thinking many times a day. As I was walking the other day, I laughed right out loud. A squirrel, busy nibbling on a found treasure of food, scurried out of my path and leaped … Continue reading →