It’s summer time and New England’s lily-laden roadsides are decorated with farm stands overflowing with sweet corn, tomatoes, squash and a wonderful assortment of God’s bounty. Yesterday I stopped and bought tomatoes. They are so much better than the hothouse tomatoes at the supermarket. I...
I just finished writing a letter of recommendation for a former student. Mark Twain once said recommendations should be filled out by our enemies because they will tell the truth about us. When reading letters of recommendations one must pretty much ignore what is written...
In Galatians 5 Paul is very emphatic regarding our adding anything of value toward the payment for eternal life. He wants to make sure we understand that salvation is not a 50% payment of effort on our part with Christ making up the other half. ...
One of the first things one is taught when taking flying lessons is not to believe what one sees or feels. It has been proven over and again that our senses do not always tell us the truth. Pilots are taught to trust their instruments...
Our world is full of passwords. I’m sure I must have a dozen different ones for various computer accounts. If I lost my password book I would be in huge difficulty. Through the years it has gotten difficult to use because of having to change...
Words are pictures of ideas. We might be tempted to think some words are merely pictures of things. But things are ideas. One of the most endearing word ever is Mother. Mother is an idea embracing so much more than one human. A Car is...
Our granddaughter works in the very space my wife worked in thirty years ago. My wife told her to look for the face of Jesus in the wood grain on the back of one of the doors. This evening we received a report that the...
The first thing I do every Sunday is read Blondie and The Family Circus in the funny papers. Blondie and Dagwood have been a part of my mental family as long as I can remember. What’s wonderful about them is they are ageless. Alexander...
The back cover of a recent Fortune Magazine has the following message. “89% of the Fortune 100 (corporations) trust Salesforce to power their success.” So it appears the old expression, “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door” is...
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