“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’” Matthew 22:37 “Who do you love?” the instructor asked… Class at the community college was ending… The instructor pointed at one student after another, asking the same question again and again… […]
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30 seconds… We were 30 seconds late. I can hear you saying… “Thirty seconds? Who cares?” How long is 30 seconds? Count to thirty seconds. One-thousand-one… One-thousand-two… (Keep Counting!) Longer than you thought? Why was I worried about being 30 seconds late? I worked in television news and we were […]
And do not be conformed to this world… Romans 12:2 “They look like a Santa Claus Chorus line…” my wife said as she showed me the new Christmas decorations… Half-a-dozen Santas… looking almost alike… but in different poses… If they are a Santa chorus line, one is clearly the star… […]
Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Psalm 25:4 I remember the sound this lamp made when I was growing up… That’s right… I remember the sound of the lamp…
They were staring at us… It was a day at the beach, and I was staring at the waves… Staring at the translucent water… A light aquamarine near the shore where the light tan of the sandy bottom mixed with the reflected blue of the sky… And a dark, dark […]
“One! Two! Three! Go!” my granddaughter calls out… She races down the sidewalk giggling and looking to see if I am far behind… At two she’s proud of her counting skills and even prouder that she can outrace me. Sometimes she runs before she gets to “three”… “One! “Two!” and […]
It was the worst day of the week… The day of my piano lesson. Each turn of the bicycle wheels brought me closer to my impending doom. My piano teacher was revered by the parents of our small town and deeply feared by the town’s young piano students…