On our way into a Friendly’s I held the door for a family on their way out. As a little guy passed me I heard him say to his dad, “I want to come back here again.” Too bad Friendly’s didn’t have that on camera. ...
While waiting for my wife to come and get me I sat on a rock at the side of a parking area watching the world go by. It was warm and breezy – perfect. Just then a woman came across the parking area toward her...
I spent a lion’s share of the day connected to bottles and needles being filled with lots of interestingly expensive stuff. Because it was 72 degrees when I came home I sat outside enjoying the warmth. A mosquito landed on my arm and I watched...
Elementary school teachers tell me they know when the weather is about to change. They don’t need a barometer because the children get fidgety. I wonder if that is also true with dogs. Our weatherman is telling us a large storm is heading our way...
Daniel is the only significant Bible character for whom we have no mention of his personal failures. Then I remember that it was Daniel who wrote the book of Daniel. Perhaps his failure to mention any personal fault was his personal fault. However, I should...
My wife came home with the words that every man wants to hear. “The car is making a strange noise when I turn.” Now being male, (just by genetic endowments all men immediately know what is wrong with a car) I headed for the garage...
I have never been to the Holy Land. Through the years I have resisted the urging of friends to accompany them on a tour of walking where Jesus walked. It is a desire to allow my imagined vision of Galilee and Jerusalem to remain intact. ...
Can you believe it? I was ten miles away from home and I threw away my car keys. I had not eaten since breakfast. No, it wasn’t 9:30 A.M. It was 3 P.M. I was driving past the Taco Bell where we usually ate lunch...
There is something very tempting about completely adopting a completely logical frame of mind that only relates to that which can be proven scientifically. For several hundred years the scientific method has served us well; with it we have unsecreted knowledge and built modernity. Our...
There was an inscription on the inner wall of the temple forbidding any other than a Jew to pass inside on the pain of death. Jewish midwives were forbidden to aid any woman but a Jew lest they were responsible for bringing another gentile into...