21 July 2026 Some of you will get to enjoy this thought twice today…but I’m reading through the Psalms as part of my daily Bible reading, & today one of them was Psalm 34. Verse 10 might sound familiar…I think it gets used in some of...
14th July 2026 I mentioned a time or two that I was privileged to be invited to a Roundtable on Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence. Held for Religious & Community Leaders, it was instructive, quite sad at times, but very useful for the work of Christ’s...
7 July 2026 Two anniversaries in one week! The 250th anniversary of the United States’ Declaration of Independence from Great Britain last Saturday & Leonie & my 37th wedding anniversary this Thursday. And let’s not forget Olivia’s 5th birthday! The common happy thread there…we’re all still...
30 June 2026 Happy End-of-June y’all! Can you believe we’re half-way through the year?!?!? And for our school-involved families that means holidays are at hand at the end of this 11th week of the 2nd term. Enjoy the respite & be careful out there! I know that...
23 June 2026 No…I haven’t re-used an old “Fresh Water” from November for this week…but after our HUGE full weekend…AND our 13th Birthday, all I can think of is how thankful I am for each & every one of you; for the enormous faith you live...
16 June 2026 Where did Winter go That beautiful sunshine & milder than expected weather is a surprise blessing…but it really is supposed to be colder than this. I have an acquaintance in town who told me she & her boyfriend were supposed to head off...
I mentioned some historical dates last week…a couple more caught my eye. June 6th was D-Day…the 1944 Allied landings on Normandy in World War II. I was struck by the fact that 90% of the soldiers in the first wave of landing craft never lived...
2 June 2026 I’m not sure if you noticed a couple of important commemorative dates this past week…? One, perhaps we all knew was coming, June 1st is technically the first day of Winter, and the current weather conditions seem to agree wholeheartedly! The other may be...
26 May 2026 Most of us live pretty close to our calendars. Whether or not you’re still in the work force, there are schedules to keep, appointments to remember, birthdays & anniversaries to celebrate, holidays to keep in mind… timetables, to-do lists, and medicine to take...
20th May 2026 I’ve been introduced to an historian/philosopher named Mark Atwood. I know nothing about him other than what he’s written…much of which is far too intellectually deep for me to understand. BUT…what I do understand is awesome. For instance…He writes about the pre-Reformation church...