When my older son was about twelve months old I was holding him on my lap as together we gazed out upon an African landscape from a high rocky point. As I pointed out things to him I remember thinking I shouldn't have any more...
Some of you may have seen the television commercial that features a woman running from a store yelling, "Start the car. Start the car." She got such a great bargain inside that store she thought she had just robbed the place. Sometimes after I read...
I got a new pair of glasses. They are old-people glasses. Old-people glasses used to be bi or trifocals with the lines but now we get progressive lenses. No lines. The only people who now get glasses with lines are the trendy people. My old-people...
They were both wearing wedding rings so I am going to believe they were married to each other. What cast just a hint of suspicion was the way they acted. They were sitting at a restaurant table talking to each other and laughing. That’s not...
I just love good tithe stories, especially when they happen to me. When we were young and poor they were easy to see. God promises in Malachi 4 that He will be faithful with us if we are faithful with Him. Even now His blessings...
There are certain things so good they are beyond adjectives. On this very warm August evening I have just consumed an Orange Creamsicle. Our family used to call them Dreamsicles. Not only was it delicious on my tongue it was even more so in my...
Recently I sat through a thirty minute sermon admonishing us to be ready for Jesus to come. I kept waiting for the speaker to tell us what we had to do to be ready. If I am going to be told to do something I...
It has been a few years now since my mother passed away, so I figured it was time to shred her business papers. There was a box of old check registers, annuity papers, receipts for things long gone. There were documents scribed with my father’s...
This past month one could almost have confused New England with the tropics.Each afternoon the sky filled with giant cumulus clouds; lightning flashed, thunder rumbled and torrential downpours filled our reservoirs to overflowing. That is amazing. All the moisture has awakened a rich array of...
Sometimes it is so dark when I walk my black lab I cannot see her even though we are on opposite ends of her leash. I walk carefully as to not trip on anything as she tugs me down the hill. She loves to walk...