Trapped! Claustrophobic people get the implications of this word easily. They know the feeling of confinement, no room, suffocating dread and fast beating heart. But all of us have been acquainted with the word trapped, even if not in a physical way. We’ve been ensnared by insufficient finances for our current debts… been smothered by […]
Archive | November, 2020
No Reception?
It was a great wedding! Joanie and I drove down to Southern California and didn’t drive the 1400 miles in one day! We tried something civilized and stopped to spend the night in Utah. That for us is a vast improvement in taking care of ourselves. The rehearsal and dinner at a steak house […]
Samson’s Hair
What confusing and contradictory times! The only thing about the last eight months that we all agree on – is that there is a virus and it’s here (and everywhere!) Aside from that there is disagreement about how lethal it is… a vicious killer, or only slightly more problematic than the flu? We disagree […]
Where We Live
After fifty-seven years of marriage and an embarrassing number of moves over those years, Joanie and I have found a most amazing place to live. It’s the kind of place anybody in the world would like to reside. Once we made our choice, the move came easily. There were no pitches to pressure us, […]
A Lullaby On A Bass Drum?
Could God play “Brahms’s Lullaby” using just a bass drum? There are times in our lives when we need to ask ourselves preposterous questions about our God. Scripture requires it. If God is able to “[carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our […]