Last night my wife and I were both cast down for the same reason (which I will not discuss), and engaged in a pity party for a couple of hours. Normally, when one of us is down, the other helps to lift us up. But that did not happen last night. I am not sure…
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Blog“In Season and Out of Season”
Back in 1999, we gave my parents a 5oth wedding anniversary party. One of the gifts to them was a video of pictures taken throughout the years set to favorite background music. After the wonderful celebration, I was reflecting and wrote the following that had transpired while putting the pictures together. I hope it resonates…
The so-called Christmas season has begun. I say “so-called” because it is somewhat indefinite in scope, and undefined in extent. But, a little like the change of the wind toward the end of The Lord of the Rings, there is a subtle change in these days that begins to arouse an expectancy…
It is sometimes grumbled among Christians that the focus on “Baby Jesus” at Christmastime is misplaced – that it was the God-Man Jesus, not the Baby, that provided the salvation so desperately needed by mankind. There is a certain sourness about that attitude that ought to warn us that something is wrong. For…
When I got up this morning and made my coffee, there was a bright blanket of mist that lay over the hidden river beyond the band of trees at the far side of the field behind our house. The mist bled over the band of trees to cover also the field. This had lifted by…
I sit in my living room this May morning drinking my coffee and slowly coming awake. My gaze is drawn to the crystal-clear day, one of those days you dream about when it is cold and blustery and overcast. Not this morning. The sun is behind me as I sit on the living room sofa…