A sandwich is a wonderful thing. You start with two pieces of bread and the rest is all creativity. The possible combinations are infinite. The end product is a work of art spanning the culinary range of a PB&J to a Dagwood. I inherited my...
The first time I ever heard the title professor emeritus I was quite impressed. It was at a graduation service and I thought it meant the prof was super good. Little did I know it had more to do with being OLD than with the...
When I was very small my parents gave me thirty-five cents a week. Twenty-five cents was for the mission offering at church and ten cents was for me. We had a treasure land for a neighborhood store run by a man with no legs. He...
I am sitting here staring at my keyboard. (Not music – I don’t know what to do with one of those. This one has letters not black and white keys.) It is a marvelous thing. It talks. It says anything I want it to say. ...
There are some things so very important and so weighty they should not be witnessed by others. Matthew 27:45 records such a moment in time. “From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land.” Jesus has been on the cross for...
English is not a proud language. It has no shame in adding new words to its ever growing inventory of available units of communication. Each year the publishers of dictionaries include new words taken from current usage. One of this year’s additions is sheeple, a...
There is a fascinating concept at the close of Hebrews 1. Angels are described as ministering spirits to care for the heirs of salvation. That’s us. According to Romans 8 and Galatians 4 we are adopted into God’s family and are heirs of salvation. Several years...
Recently I was fascinated by the intellectual content of the person with whom I was speaking or should I say lack of content. He was a professor at a college where he had obtained his BA, MA and doctorate. He made mention of his comfort...
I love getting free stuff, which attracts me to a furniture commercial which promises if the Boston Red Sox win the first four games of the World Series all the furniture I buy between now and then will be free. I will get a check...
One of the most wonderful sounds I ever heard was coming home and hearing someone shout, “Daddy’s home” and to hear the thunder of small feet running to me. The sheer joy of loving and being loved surpasses all other human emotions. How very empty...