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

One of the side-splitting scenes in the film, Meet the Parents, occurs when the father of the bride, a former CIA agent, explains his concept of the ‘circle of trust’ to his future son-in-law, Greg Focker.  The paranoia of that… Continue reading

“It will change your life!”  This is the implied statement behind all kinds of advertising. The right car will make you a success and bring you respect.  A splash of cologne will make you irresistible. This pill will extend your… Continue reading

In the months prior to D-Day, that pivotal moment when the Allies would send thousands of men across the English Channel to face the Axis powers, Dwight Eisenhower was appointed the Supreme Commander of all the forces! The massive invasion… Continue reading

Just about any parent of a child, particularly a teen, knows what it is to deal with a lack of appreciation.  After scarfing down dinner, that boy whose just eaten his fill, walks away apparently without any idea of the… Continue reading

“I’ve got to do this,” he insisted. “If I don’t, everything will fall apart.”  He knew the choice he was about to make was not aligned with the Christian principles he had been taught.  But, he was certain it was… Continue reading

Small rodents called a lemmings occasionally engage in migrations. Sometimes these movements lead them to a body of water. They plunge in, thinking they can swim, but often, exhausted by the effort, they drown in what looks like a mass… Continue reading