Consider the Shells
For Spring Break this year, my wife and I had the opportunity to take our children to the beach. This is usually an annual event, but I don’t always get … Continue reading
For Spring Break this year, my wife and I had the opportunity to take our children to the beach. This is usually an annual event, but I don’t always get … Continue reading
For some reason, I have always been close to a number of widows. My dad’s mother lived with us my first eight years of life, and I was always close to my mom’s parents as well, particularly her mom. Curiously, each of my parents had an aunt that I also … Continue reading
I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to … Continue reading
In coming weeks, my blog entries will focus on a word that’s common in religious circles. Today it’s “righteousness.”
I like simple! To me, “righteousness” simply means being clear that I am following God’s sense of “right.” The trick is to seek and find God’s sense of “right.” I look … Continue reading
How well do we know our fellow parishioners, even the ones with whom we share a pew, or those who sit across the aisle? Of course we don’t want to appear nosy, heavens no. Still, we belong to the same Christian community, and I can tell you for a fact … Continue reading
Wikipedia’s basic statement of the
principle known as Murphy’s Law
At first glance, it might seem contrary to Christian faith to take such a negative view. After all, aren’t we created and watched over? But the other … Continue reading
I noticed it while kneeling at the altar
for communion. I was up close and personal
with her sandaled feet below the crisp
white robe below a starched clerical collar.
The gifts of God for the people of God.
Sometimes she carries her toddler
on her … Continue reading