Works of the Flesh and Fruit of the Spirit: Part 1
There is slavery and there is freedom. At first they seem easy to distinguish, but the reality is that sometimes we forget how to tell the difference. Freedom is a fragile and elusive thing. We talk a great deal about protecting freedom, so it won’t be taken from us, when in reality freedom is rarely […]
SIGHTINGS
My childhood was during the 1970’s. One of the great television shows that my friends and I watched regularly was a show hosted by Leonard Nimoy, called “In Search of”. It was one of those shows that looked at the fantastic as if it were credible. Mr. Nimoy dazzled our imaginations and with “true stories” […]
FIRST WORD, SECOND WORD
Have you ever noticed how time passes differently, depending on what’s happening? You know the old truism, “A watched kettle never boils.” Time just moves differently depending on what’s going on. I remember back in High School the last five minutes of the last class period of the day seemed to go on forever. I […]
FIRST WORD, SECOND WORD
Have you ever noticed how time passes differently, depending on what’s happening? You know the old truism, “A watched kettle never boils.” Time just moves differently depending on what’s going on. I remember back in High School the last five minutes of the last class period of the day seemed to go on forever. I […]
GOD’S FOOLISHNESS
I used to be an Inn Keeper. Not the usual sort of Inn Keeper. The folks who staid in my Inn were mostly homeless men in alcohol and drug addiction recovery in Washington DC. A rough crowd. The rules of the Inn were very strict. To choose to break the rules was to choose to […]
GOD’S FOOLISHNESS
I used to be an Inn Keeper. Not the usual sort of Inn Keeper. The folks who staid in my Inn were mostly homeless men in alcohol and drug addiction recovery in Washington DC. A rough crowd. The rules of the Inn were very strict. To choose to break the rules was to choose to […]
MIRE
I was about eight years old before my parents decided we needed to start going to Church. Before that my parents played tennis most Sunday Mornings. My brother, Geoffrey, and I would tag along and spend the morning playing in the woods and fields and streams that abounded around the tennis courts. The best part […]
SIGHTINGS
My childhood was during the 1970’s. One of the great television shows that my friends and I watched regularly was a show hosted by Leonard Nimoy, called “In Search of”. It was one of those shows that looked at the fantastic as if it were credible. Mr. Nimoy dazzled our imaginations and with “true stories” […]
SERVANT OF THE WORD
Like most people I am a big fan of the Harry Potter stories by J.K. Rowling. One of the things Susan and I enjoy is reading to each other and we’ve staid up late many nights enjoying Ms. Rowling’s lively stories. I even like the Harry Potter movies. As always the books are better, but […]
MERCY
How to begin? What needs to be heard? What needs to be said? Beginnings and endings are important. Our lives are full of both. We are always beginning, always ending all the time. That is how we mark our grave stones, with the dates of beginning and ending with a dash in-between. We pack a […]