The longer we live, the more times we experience pure and unencumbered gratitude. This last week I was like a kid in a candy store. A wonderful book club sent me a gift package out of the blue, dear friends sent me BBQ sauce from Mt. Pleasant, Texas from one of my favorite watering holes,…
What’s Special About Today On Your Calendar?
Ninety-Nine Years ago my mother was born, so today has always been special to me. I don’t know about y’all, but sometimes I find myself reading that small piece of the newspaper that says what important happened on this day. Usually its about a war that was started, or a famous person who was born…
Wake Up! Are You Going To Sleep Your Life Away?
Wake Up! This command is not just meant to get us out from under the covers, it’s meant to be how we live our life! Consciousness, Awareness, Living in the moment, Seize the day, Mindfulness, there are so many programs to in simple words mean “Wake Up!” On my sabbatical, I had a cellmate who…
What God Has Made Clean, You Must Not Call Profane
What God has made clean, you must not call profane. — Acts 11:9 Peter tells his fellow Jews that God came to him in a dream and declares that all are welcome in the early Church — the Jews and Gentiles, the circumcised and the uncircumcised. I bet each and every one of you have belonged to…
Where Did Hope Go?
A natural tendency as we get older is to harden and become cynical. We lose our youthful optimism and hope. It reminds me of the opening scene in one of my favorite movie, The Big Chill, where the preacher laments, “Where Did Hope Go?” Yet if we look around, if we are aware, we see examples…