Month: May 2016
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Improve your memory!
About 200 of us gathered to remember- local dignitaries offered orations, a pastor led in prayer, and old men spoke of sacrifice and war with tremors of emotions in their voices. The trumpets played echo taps at the conclusion of the Memorial Day program and the mournful tune stirred a deep emotion of empathy for […]
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I’ll tell him like it is!
I tried to form a bond, but the friendship, if you could call it that, was never healthy. Despite my best efforts, I could never really make a connection. Was the person just too psychologically broken to form a real bond or just selfishly evil? He spread discord wherever he went, stole from others, lied […]
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Friendship, Facebook, and me
Facebook- some hate it, some love it. I am one of those in the second category. Can it be a time waster? Yes, indeed. Can it be addictive? Yes, again. Is it a great way to connect with people? In my opinion, yes, too! My friends, far and near, take time to publish photos and […]
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Little League and Jesus
Swing and miss. “Tommy, look them over. Choose your pitch!” the coach urged from the sideline as Tommy swung, once again, at a ball that bounced on the plate. Pop! It’s a hit and the ball shot up the field between second and third base, with the players making dodges, passing one, then two, then […]
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Throw away your bucket list
The phrase ‘bucket list’ refers to those things we want to do, to see, to go before we ‘kick the bucket.’ I am all for living life to the full because of an awareness of the brevity of our days here on this planet. In a hundred years, nobody will remember my name, probably not […]
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What Path For Me?
I am facing some decisions in my life that could change my life and affect the lives of others. They are not just about what color shirt to wear or about what I’ll eat for breakfast! I am blessed to have a choice in those matters. But, there are larger choices that have a ripple […]
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Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing? Five times in the last two weeks I have stood with grieving families with these words of hope – “In my Father’s house are many rooms … I go to prepare a place for you.” (John 14) Looking to Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, I have reminded […]
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Keeping it legal?
You see the police cruiser on the horizon and you … Slow down? Drop the cell phone? Grab for the seat belt? Or, if you are doing nothing wrong, you just keep driving. Most of us do not ‘love’ the laws that govern us so we when we see an officer that could enforce consequences, […]
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A Stranger in a Strange Land
“I don’t understand the world in which I live anymore,” I sighed. It is not a joke. America has changed. The ‘majority’ culture, based on shared values about life that are largely derived from the Bible, is evaporating, being replaced by a secular one that has no meaningful place for ‘God,’ especially One who came […]
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Anger turned to madness
Observers are explaining our current crazy politics in terms of anger. One writer said that hope fed the campaign of Barack Obama in 2008 and anger has shaped the current election season. “A lot of voters are angry. Very angry,” Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz wrote in a recent analysis. “Now voter ire […]
CoffeeBreak With The Word 