The surgeon picked up a scalpel and cut my flesh! He made a terrible wound on my body, worse than any accidental cut in my entire life.  His work was to bring about wholeness by cutting away that part of… Continue reading

Complete Failure The headline of the newspaper read, “Complete Failure.”  They reported on the investigation into the Sandusky child abuse issues at Penn State and the complicity of several influential leaders at the university in a plan to protect the… Continue reading

“NY Med” is a new summer program that features cutting edge medical procedures interwoven with personal stories of the patients. It’s not actors playing surgeons; it is real doctors dealing with real people. (ABC, 10 pm, Monday) While watching it,… Continue reading

War At Home –          Guest author – Sean A. Scott We’re in the midst of a war . . . not over there but right here, on this soil, in your home or neighborhood. We’re surrounded- there are double agents… Continue reading

Dozens of people with various needs come through my life each week. Yesterday it was a woman who needed $301 to keep from being evicted. Last week it was a man whose heart was shattered by his son’s untimely death.… Continue reading

Bedtime stories for our children generally end like this; “and so they lived happily ever after”  and for good reason.  Who wants to send a child off to sleep in despair?  When you watch a movie, do you, like me,… Continue reading

Anxiety – it’s a curse,  a misuse of our ability to anticipate and plan. Some nights my eyes refuse to close in restful sleep while my mind does calculations about some personal challenge. What makes you anxious? Money, health, children,… Continue reading

Puttin’ on a show “Oh, Ga’wd … Hallleeeluuujaah.  Thank you, Jeeesuss.” No, I am not mocking, nor do I mean to be irreverent.  But, I have attended prayer meetings where I heard people praying in clichés, repeating stock phrase. It… Continue reading

When I was a teenager, I learned to fly airplanes.  Just after my 16th birthday, one July morning, the flight instructor stepped out of the airplane and said, “Take it around the pattern three times while I observe from the… Continue reading

Pictures, sounds, smells, faces- an amazing collage of information out of which I formulate memories – is stored in the billions of cells that form that lump between my ears called a brain! On Sunday, Bev and I set off… Continue reading