It was very quiet this morning when I went to the street for the morning paper. It was quiet except for a family of cardinals. Mom and dad and three adult-sized young ones were all over the yard while having a full blown conversation. They...
Have you ever had someone give you something you really didn't want or like? You say "thank you" and then try to figure out what to do with it. You can't take it to the church welfare center lest they see it there. Usually it...
I rarely give my students passages to memorize. Instead we read and talk about the significant ideas contained in important passages. Sometimes I wonder if I am doing them a disservice not to require that they put them to heart. I remember hating to have...
At first I would have thought they were just married or about to be except they had two little girls with them who appeared to be about three and four. We came around the corner of an aisle in one of those discount warehouse stores...
Having to go to the DMV I went prepared. I took plenty of reading material. I even went a half an hour before it opened and discovered over fifty people already in line at the door. I was having a difficult time reading because of...
I was feeling really good when I went to chapel at our college yesterday. My new metal knee is working just fine. It likes the cold and we have lots of cold these days. As I settled in I suddenly felt not just fine but...
Dark green leaves of August hung still in today's heavy summer haze. The day was filled with activities that required little movement lest one begin to sweat and stick to everything. Sitting at a table by an open window I listened to and watched my...
It won’t be long now until the hummingbirds that frequent our feeders will start their very long journey south. They are such a joy. They are amazingly brazen. They will come and feed while you are standing right by the bright red feeder. One day...
G-20 meetings are reminiscent of a story found in Job 1. It appears that the sons of God, the representatives of the various worlds in the universe, assembled before God. At that time Satan was the representative of our world. A dispute arose between God...
Being snowed-in in 2009 isn't quite the same as it used to be. First of all those weather people on television told us it would start to snow at nine o’clock. It started at nine o’clock. They told us we would get a foot. Aha,...