In October, 2015, I knew that my beloved wife was being called to her eternal home. Her cancer had advanced. When I would carry her frail little body from the living room sofa to her bed and we murmured words… Continue reading

The view through my bay window this morning is grey, a dense fog covering the area. Trees poke through the haze,  black limbs making scraggly, jagged lines against the sky.  Brown grass signals the deathly grip of winter.  I sigh… Continue reading

The man, once tall and strong, amazingly gifted to build, fix, and create, is now weakened by age.  As I visited with him, he was frail, barely able to stand, not always following the conversation. “It’s pathetic,” he said, half… Continue reading

The end of the first half found this Patriots fan resigned to  a loss; after all, no team had ever overcome such a lead to win a SuperBowl.  When the second half opened with yet another Falcon touchdown and the… Continue reading

Nearly a decade ago I bought a little sports car that provided me much fun for several years. One day it was parked on the front lawn and I was putting a coat of wax on it. A neighbor walked… Continue reading

The report on “CBS This Morning” (2/1/2017) found that American families with kids suffer from an inverted kind of social order in which the kids are in charge.  Exhausted parents run all weekend long from one activity to another, sending… Continue reading

How would I live without the ‘communion of the saints’ as we say in our creed? The network of friends and associates with whom I do life and ministry is as essential to my well-being as the air I breathe!… Continue reading

When I am in a group of strangers who inquire about my vocation, with a smile I tell them I sell life insurance. Few things kill a conversation more quickly than revealing that I am a pastor of a local… Continue reading

How’s your race going, friend?  If you are in one of those times when it looks like a straight level stretch as far as the eye can see, thank God, and keep going. Those are sweet times! Some of you… Continue reading

I looked at myself in the mirror for a long time wondering, “Are all those critics right? Are those life-long convictions just ‘old man’ stuff, worn out, tired ideas to be tossed?”  Such introspection is not an entirely a bad… Continue reading