3:00 AM… The Cell phone rings. Reaching for it in the dark, I knock it to the floor… “Hello?” calls a disembodied voice… “I’m in the ditch about a mile south of town…” “How soon can you get here?” “Huh?” “I’m an 18 wheeler, so bring one of your big rigs to pull me […]
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Nineteen months old… She climbs into the old cane-seated chair… Gives a satisfied sigh at accomplishing something she learned not many weeks before… Looks around to see who is there to applaud her… Then reaches for the computer keyboard on the desk. She presses keys and sings the alphabet song. Who cares […]
Their 45th Anniversary… Someone gave them a gift to commemorate it. Now that gift sits in the resale shop. Why is it here? Have they died? Are they in a care facility? Was it one of many similar gifts? Down the aisle from the anniversary plate sits a little red […]
He was sitting right across the desk from me… But I practically had to shout… The pain of construction was noise and dust… The payoff would be brand new offices. The only thing I liked about my current office was the desk, although It wasn’t really a desk at all. […]
Walking through open doors isn’t always easy… Remember the ad where a bird tricks a guy into walking into a glass door? Sometimes I feel God has tricked me the same way… I move through what looks like an open door… And immediately run into such resistance that I wonder if the door […]
“…unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven…” – Matthew 18:3 “Go?” Our granddaughter is 19 months old and loves to ride in the car. “Go?” She asks. Eyes wide, a great big smile on her face, she asks again, “Go?”. “Yes. Let’s Go!” “Go, […]
… God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:16 Just married… And I wanted to be the perfect husband… So when my wife said, “Carry me across the threshold”, I complied… The problem is that unlike the famous actors […]
I see the Drug store at the last minute… It is on the left side of the road… I am in the right lane… Making a rather daring move across three lanes of traffic, I pull into the drug store lot… No, I’m not making an emergency medication run for a sick child…
I can be a lot like “Doubting Andrew”… Don’t I mean “Doubting Thomas”? No, I’m talking about Doubting Andrew… There he is… Right in the middle of the story of the five loaves… doubting Jesus’ provision… He says to Jesus…
Are you looking for God in your life? Me too. Sometimes I think he is hiding from me. Maybe it’s just that I’m looking for Him in all the wrong places Here’s a story about the day I found God in a “Burning Bush”…