When Your Hospitality Is Not Good Enough
Joe (not his real name) called me last night as Evelyn and I were getting ready for bed. His furnace was malfunctioning, ever so slowly seeping gas fumes into
Not Giving on Giving Tuesday
‘Tis the season. To be jolly? Maybe. But it’s also the season for charitable appeals. As I did last year, I began stockpiling the mail that came
History Lessons
During my elementary grade school years I remember loathing history class. I had zero interest in history. Why did we need to know or worry about what already happened?
I Haven’t Cried
Recently, while Evelyn and I were Walmart shopping, we got news that my uncle, Chuck Wilson, had passed away from an apparent heart attack. My Aunt Linda called to
Touching
Reading my daily devotional guide, “The Upper Room Disciplines,” for last Tuesday, October 20, I found myself considering the special blessing that is contained in touch. The devotional writer, Marilyn
Quandary
I still attend the little church I found here in Delaware after my retirement eight years ago. Dave does not. Dave and I met shortly after I started worshiping in
Our Authoritarian President?
What does it mean that President Trump has now contracted COVID-19? It’s no secret that he tried to downplay the severity of the pandemic from the beginning. He is on
Don and Dan — a Biblical Prediction?
[I had written this on 9/27/20, but I inadvertently hit a button or clicked my mouse; in any event, my composition was relegated (according to the message that popped
The Good Life
There is so much in the world to worry or complain about, isn’t there? Civil unrest, increasing prices, climate change, COVID-19, and don’t get me started on the infuriating nonsense
Mr. Hudson and St. Francis
St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day.