Bev, my late wife, was not much given to silliness and when I would joke in a manner which she found childish, when she had enough of it, I would hear – “Jerry, just grow up!”  A few days ago,… Continue reading

I was at one of our church’s buildings around 6:30 this morning. A truck pulled up in the parking lot and the driver leaned out the window and asked what I was doing there so early.  I laughed and answered,… Continue reading

The early morning of February 10, 1977 is still a vivid moment in my life.  I became a father that day at about 6 am!  My emotions wildly swung between elation and terror when they placed that little baby boy… Continue reading

It was a long phone call that tried my patience.  The discussion was about a challenging situation that involves attempting to meet many converging needs. Every ‘solution’ creates wins and losses. The man with whom I was speaking was singularly… Continue reading

As I listened to the President’s State of the Union speech last night, I was mentally writing the headlines that I knew would appear the next day. This morning they appeared as expected, invective hurled back and forth from Left… Continue reading

It’s hard to be reminded of failure, isn’t it? Anyone of us who is honest with ourselves will have moments that when remembered cause us to cringe, to feel regret. Who among us would not like a ‘do over,’ an… Continue reading

Our legal system has one court that has the last word.  When a case makes its way through the courts, through appeals, it may finally come before the Supreme Court. Surprisingly to me, I recently found that only around 80… Continue reading

In our culture, increasingly secular and marked by disbelief, there is a strange statistic. About 60% of us believe in the existence of the Devil! The survey that I read revealed that we are not very precise about who we… Continue reading

It is a miserable headache. My body feels like I have been beaten. Do I like the pain? Of course not. But, it is a signal to me that a tiny virus has taken up residence with all those not… Continue reading

Earlier this week, when New York passed a law that, in my opinion, showed an utter disregard for the sacredness of human life, I made some public statements that some found offensive.  Several called me out for a ‘lack of… Continue reading