Now that we have moved beyond Thanksgiving I guess we can start talking about Christmas. Yesterday the fall decorations were packed away and taken back into the attic until next year. Soon, maybe even today, the holiday decorations will be… Read More »Come out of the darkness
Last year’s Thanksgiving post got out a little late. Truthfully, it was a lot late. I wrote, “I’m late, and left wondering if anyone will actually see this post. It’s the day before Thanksgiving after all.” There were only 14… Read More »Happy Thanksgiving
The chaotic would we live in is nothing new. Some would argue with me, and some have. That’s fine. They’re entitled to their opinion, and I am happy to leave them to it. Though I find other’s opinions valuable, I… Read More »The Chaos Doesn’t Scare Me
“Love each other in the same way I have loved you,” Jesus commands us. What exactly is the “way” Jesus loves us? Jesus continues with the answer, “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life… Read More »Love Each Other
Preparing to write a Memorial Day post this morning, I looked back over other Memorial Day post I had written. I could find only one, and it was not written specifically for Memorial Day. It is a post about a… Read More »Remembering “Wally.” Memorial Day 2021.
A few months ago my wife and I took a day trip to the north Georgia mountains. Knowing it was a bit early in the season we still hoped to see some fall color. It was a dark, overcast, rainy… Read More »Sitting with a Cat
Life doesn’t always take us in a direction we want to go. That’s no surprise to anyone. We all go through difficult times. They are inevitable and built into the fallenness of our human condition. Though we at times will… Read More »Steps of the Godly
Following the 2016 election a lot of people went into instant panic over the realization that Donald Trump had won. It wasn’t unlike the panic that occurred following the 2020 election of Joe Biden, with the exception that four years… Read More »God’s grace is still enough.
If this post looks similar to my last post, it is, a little bit anyway. The time has come for me to write my annual Christmas post, and having done one a couple weeks ago I decided to use it… Read More »Focus: Jesus
Christmas 2020 will be celebrated differently than we have normally celebrated in the past. With all the “restrictions,” whether forced or self-imposed, it may feel like The Grinch has been successful at stopping Christmas, but just like in the Dr.… Read More »Christmas 2020: Still About Jesus
I’m late, and left wondering if anyone will actually see this post. It’s the day before Thanksgiving after all, and who is going to be paying any attention to blog post, the Internet, or anything online, except the Butterball Turkey… Read More »Happy Thanksgiving
Like many of you, I watched the documentary, The Way I See It, about Pete Souza’s time as the Chief Official White House photographer. I was more interested in seeing and learning about this photographer’s work than about the politics… Read More »The Way I Saw It
My last blog post was more than a month ago. It wasn’t even a new post. I updated an old post and re-posted it. My apologies for the irregular posts. No excuses. I’m back, and I hope you will stick… Read More »One thing that will kill a blog faster than anything is irregular posts
Old books, tattered, torn, full of ancient words written who knows how long ago. To some they may appear ugly, good for nothing but the trash heap. Really, look at them. They have seen better days, but they are a… Read More »Ancient Words
When we moved into our house last August there was already a Bluebird nesting box in the backyard. As spring approached, we bought some bird feeders, some birdseed and dried meal worms, and enjoyed watching as a variety of birds… Read More »Bluebird Teaches a Lesson on Life Outside the Box