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Today commemorates two nurses, Florence Nightingale and Clara Maass. Unless you’re from New Jersey where the Clara Maass Medical Center is located, you’re probably unfamiliar with Clara. I didn’t know about her until I was working in a contract post … Continue reading →

            The workout center in our development, Stone Creek, has been closed due to the pandemic, and for exercise I have been riding my bike early in the cool of the morning.  There are surprisingly quite a few people out, … Continue reading →

 He is one of our favorite heroes from Saturday afternoon matinees. I watched him on Saturday T.V. with only a casual interest. I think I was more intrigued by his “man Friday”, Tonto. This is how “Kemo Sabe” came into … Continue reading →

I admit these words from Matthew 11:29 have not always been my favorite.  The world places enough burdens upon us; I wasn’t keen to think of Jesus placing yet another heavy yoke upon my shoulders. Listening to a preacher’s  message recently, I … Continue reading →

“The lesson I want you to learn is…it doesn’t matter what you look like, you can be tall, or short or fat or thin or ugly or handsome like your father, or you can be black, or yellow, or white, … Continue reading →

“Faith is a blessing. It is the ability to believe during the darkest times of our life that the Light will shine one day again!” I have observed countless comments, songs, jokes and inspirational posts on social media since this … Continue reading →

The title of this blog is taken from a One Minute Devotional entitled Grace for Today published by Christian Art Publishers.  I have been worrying and obsessing about a title and topic for this week’s blog, promising myself that I … Continue reading →

Every time I think I really know the Bible, I run into something new. “I am like a pelican of the wilderness” (Psalm 102:6a, King James Version). A Pelican of the wilderness? I checked the verse in other translations. The … Continue reading →

            During my junior year of college, I took a course in complex variables.  The professor was a kind, gentle, elderly man, and while he didn’t directly teach much of the material, he did a good job of telling us … Continue reading →

 Like most people, whenever I fly, it’s in coach. I walk past the first-class section as I board with a twinge of envy. I think, “gee, it would be nice at least once in my life to fly first-class”. I … Continue reading →