Unless you are a meteorologist or a TV weather person, wind is a mystery. The wind affects a lot of things such as airplane flight and windmills. We use the wind, but we cannot control it. We feel the wind, but we cannot see it. Why am I talking about the wind? Today the wind…
Quiet and Still
At Pawleys Island, the ocean is on one side of the main road and the marsh is on the other side. The house we rent faces the marsh. Most mornings we wake to absolute quiet and a stillness in the waters of the marsh. It is the perfect setting for meditation and converstion with God.…
Pawleys Island
Spending time on Pawleys island hardly seems to be consistent with a more traditional view of Lenten discipline. As opposed to a lenten sacrifice, Suzy and I are splurging, despite it being a time in our life, when we shouldn’t. Why are we splurging? Well, during my health hiccup last fall, Suzy and I told…
Humility
Followers of the Pew know that I write about humility often. If there is only one attribute I could wish for it would be humility. One benefit of Lent is by simply following almost any form of Lenten discipline, humility grows. Humility includes an understanding that our world is not divided into good and bad,…