CoffeeBreak With The Word

Having a conversation with someone who really ‘knows their stuff’ is something I truly enjoy. I soak up the information, glad to be able to share the fruits of another’s hard work and experience. At the opposite side of life, when I am trapped in a conversation with someone who talks as if they know, […]

More than a decade ago, my Mom, in the final months of her life, came to live in our home. It was bittersweet season, a time when she became dependent and I learned much about loving her. She would frequently call me in the middle of night, feeling anxious in the darkness of morning’s small […]

Friday evening I watched the demonstrations that spread across the nation after the announcement that that Supreme Court had reversed the infamous Roe V. Wade decision of 1973 that legalized abortion. The decision to return to the power to regulate the practice of abortion to the States was celebrated and condemned with equal fervor. I […]

The title is a Name of the Lord found in the Bible – “God is Peace.”  Peace! It can be an elusive quality of life.  We might wonder – What is going to happen to our economy? Or closer to home – how can I deal with my difficult teenager?  Or even more personal – […]

Social upheavals in our nation over the last couple of years have shaken the foundations. Women fed up with being treated as sex objects started the “Me, too” movement.  The “Black Lives Matter” movement called for justice for all regardless of skin color. The “Blue Lives Matter” movement sprang up in response to support law […]

A friend who has given the last 2 decades of his life to helping men coming out of prison says that a common factor that led to troubles is the lack of a good father.  Either the father is absent or he has so much dysfunction in his own life that he cannot be the […]

So why do we do the things we do, act as we do? Because of what we believe to be true!  We are taught truth and consequence.  For example, I put my seatbelt whenever I drive. I do not do this because I fear the ‘click it or ticket’ law. I know, from experience, that […]

A person ‘in love’ has the person loved in his thoughts near constantly. He plans for ways to show affection,  to be part of the life of his beloved. The romantic attraction matures into a shared experiences, to unselfish service, finding ways to make the life of the beloved better in every way. It is […]

What a chaotic world we live in, at least it looks that way to me. In so many places, up is down, right is wrong. It may well be as you read that line you say, “Yes, Jerry, that’s because you’re older now and set in your ways.” That is somewhat true.  But, the chaos […]

Are you anxious? Anxiety wears many disguises.  It can show up as worry or fear.  It can turn a person into a defensive and difficult individual trying desperately to reassert control over the perceived chaos of life. It can bring on a sense of being worthless or become a dark cloud of doom. Anxiety is […]