Going Nowhere Quickly

You were just snoring. No I wasn’t. Yes, you were out like a light. No I wasn’t, I’d know if I had been sleeping. How would you know if you were sleeping because you were sleeping? .Why are you looking at me like that? Cause you were looking at me. I was looking at you cause you … Continue reading →

Birthday Bargain

Happy Birthday!  We are ready to give you your cash present, a dollar for every year! Grandma, remember the year I was nine but you gave me ten anyway? Thanks for the reminder, this year you’re eleven so we’ll give you ten to balance the books. No way!! Continue reading →

More to Explore

I like the fact that there is always more to explore in life.  There is so much to behold and experience and consider that a lifetime can only skim the surface (and the service.)  Just when we may be thinking that we’ve seen it all, that we’ve squeezed the fruit nearly dry, a book appears with … Continue reading →

I Clap

At dusk I clap my  applause for another gorgeous day that Our Creator has made I clap and in response the fall leaves descend, fluttering down color, yellow, orange and red I clap them down spilling upon us and around us….with a little help from the gentlest of winds. Continue reading →

The Bottom Line

That famous prayer Jesus prayed in the garden of  Gethsemane came back to mind today as I read part of chapter 22 in the gospel Luke.  Jesus was honest with his Father, admitting that he was hoping he could be spared the cup of suffering set before him, yet at the same time his bottom … Continue reading →

A Little Space

Seemed as if I heard Him ask, “Can I borrow a little space in your heart for some of what I carry on My heart?” Continue reading →

To Vote and to Devote

As I entered the community center to participate in a brief devotional before lunch I was greeted by a friend who asked, “Are you hear to vote?”  (Earlier it seemed another friend whom I hadn’t seen in a long time was more interested in how I had voted then what I had been doing or … Continue reading →

The Dread and Dead of Winter

Our conversation turned to the dropping temperatures.  My older friend spoke of how he dreaded the coming winter. “Don’t dread it,” I started to answer, but as I considered his words more carefully, I knew he had good reason to say what he did.  He surely knew how he had suffered in previous winters, how … Continue reading →

Groping in the Dark

I looked everywhere I knew to look but could not find the article of clothing I needed. Giving up for the night I turned out the lamp, and, lo and behold, my hand came into unexpected contact with the clothing under the bedspread. That’s sometimes how it is in life, I mused, that we find … Continue reading →

Undaunted

In the 36th chapter of the book of the prophet Jeremiah, we read that Jeremiah’s prophecy about the coming destruction at the hands of the King of Babylon was utterly rejected by King Jehoiakim of Judah, who defiantly cut up the scroll upon which the prophecy was written and cast it into the fire.  When … Continue reading →