If you have ever eaten at a Cheesecake Factory I’m sure you have noticed the menu is huge. The selection is almost overwhelming. How it is possible for them to have such variety in stock and fresh. Obviously there is no expectation that one eat...
When I went into school this morning one of my colleagues said, “I have a lilac bush that hasn’t blossomed for two years.” Immediately I thought about Jesus and the fig tree. It was Monday of Passion Week when Jesus and His disciples came upon...
My wife and I just finished a game of Upwords (3-D Scrabble). There are certain letters like the Q, X, and J that one needs to play as soon as possible. I had the J. An opportunity arose to change “fail” to “jail.” In haste...
I was shocked when I looked into our birdbath. There must have been 10,000 mosquito larva swimming and growing and ever so anxious to soon make my life an itching, scratching horror. They are so tiny and yet if in the right environment so lethal. ...
I'm sitting here looking at a picture of a very pretty lady. There is just one problem. It's a picture of a tree with three birds flying to the upper branches. One bird is the lady's eye, another her nose and the third her...
Emily Dickenson wrote, “I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know.” She must have thought of being somebody (at least for a few moments) because she also wrote, “Success...
We all had special assignments beyond the classroom at our school in Uganda. Mine was to daily check on and maintain the water pump that supplied our school with the best water imaginable. Away from the campus and down into a jungleish valley was a...
How much is enough? Are we satiable? And if so for how long until our appetite for more slowly creeps in making us hungry again? In cases where people make lots of money and still want more, surely it can’t be about the money. Is...
While browsing about in Barnes and Noble I could not miss the wide variety of mystery books. I am going to assume that mysteries sell really well or Barnes and Noble would not use up their precious space with something that just sits and gathers...
“Everyone has a passion. A new idea to share. What will your verse be?” This is Apple iPad Air’s latest advertising challenging us by appealing to our core. Everyone has a passion. We might never have stopped long enough to probe our inner being and...