You don’t dance until the game is over — An anonymous quote repeated by coaches all over the country. I know I am old school when it comes to football. I come by it naturally. My father believed in the single wing and thought it was “bad football” to pass the ball on your own side…
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Body and Soul
How much our mental life is knit up with our corporeal frame? — William James. The above is a great question for your Lenten studies and meditation. Who among us doesn’t have our mental emotions affect our physical body? Yesterday I mentioned the phrase “Tug at our heartstrings.” Is that a real physical response? Which…
Reach Out And Touch Someone
Probably my children and and certainly my grandchildren don’t remember the time when it cost extra to call someone long distance. (And long distance meant in most cases as short a distance as the next county). I remember my grandmother admonishing me not to talk too long on the phone when we made an annual…
Teach Me
Make me know your ways, O Lord: Teach me your paths, lead me in your truth and teach me… Psalm 25:4-5. As adults, we sometime believe we are beyond needing a teacher, but here is David asking God to teach him not once, but twice. The above verses are a good introduction to Lent. Instead of…
Lenten Season Is Upon Us
That’s right Shrove Tuesday is tomorrow so you better get the pancake batter ready and if you are giving up some food group like chocolate or oatmeal cookies, it is better to have your last bite, forty days is a long time even if you celebrate Feast days. This year I’m down to the wire…