The Forty-Foot High Roof Job

I’ll never forget it, standing with my friend Gene at the foot of that new building at the sawmill as volunteers were being sought to help put on the roof. “No way I’m going up there!”   Gene said honestly.  “I don’t do well with heights.”  (He also happened to be hearing-challenged.) “Nonsense!”  I responded, oblivious and seeing … Continue reading →

Proverbial Fragments

If  words prayed without thoughts fail to ascend to heaven, then thoughts must be the wings of prayer that bring those words there. Enoch and Elijah, like Jesus, ascended to heaven, but Enoch and Elijah, unlike Jesus, did not DESCEND from heaven in the first place. There was once an infinite infant who joined the infantry,  in fact he grew … Continue reading →

Tongue of Glory

Something comes to fruition when we remember to give thanks for something or take time to praise God for it.  A cycle or process that was already set in motion seems to have finished itself.   It’s a feeling of fulfillment, a sense of completion in the present, as though that’s what life’s all about, after all.  The … Continue reading →

The Ride Home

– I followed you home and you know what? – What? – You were weaving all over the place as though you’d been drinking! – Haven’t had a drop. – That’s what concerns me about the weaving. – All this weaving is going to make a marvelous tapestry someday…. – Yeah…hope it’s not on the wall … Continue reading →

Meat Goes Down Better With Milk

Hebrews 5th Chapter toward the end tells of a class of believers who, though they ought to have been teaching others, were still in need of others to teach them the basics.  They still needed milk as their central diet and not solid food which is the spiritual diet of the mature.  Even as we … Continue reading →

Commander and Chief

Heard of an infinite infant who became commander of God’s infantry. Continue reading →

Lesson of the Lugbolts

The manager of the tire place called me out to the garage to show me how dangerously tight the lug bolts were.  “We’re afraid if we apply too  much torque we’ll bust em.” “Are the others on the other tires the same way?”  I asked. “Most likely.” “Let’s try them.” I suggested.  They did and … Continue reading →

A Case of the Holies

Marooned on this tiny pinpoint island of time that we call the present, with nothing but the bridge of memory running back and hope not dread pointing ahead and floating out to sea like a helium balloon trailing its string , I have a bad case of the holies, but it is so good! If our greatest uncertainty principle is whether … Continue reading →

Jesus As Psalmist

Notice how much Jesus Messiah quotes the psalms as he proceeds through the pains of his passion experience,  culminating in his execution on the cross on a Roman cross.  In the garden of Gethsemane he laments that his soul is “swallowed up in sorrow to the point of death”  seeming to allude to the 42nd and 43rd psalms attributed to Asaph.  … Continue reading →

The Camp Chippaway Counselor’s Intro Talk

Here at Camp Chippaway we have a certain philosophy that goes along these lines: Don’t stand there wringing your hands and minds about it but,  rather,  use all that wringing energy to keep chipping away at it over the course of the day, and by the end of the day you will have made a significant difference, whether … Continue reading →