I read again, recently, a somewhat sad but true story about a guy named George. By all accounts, he was a man who loved God, and as a theologian and pastor, he was tremendously gifted with an ability to express deep spiritual insights on God’s love and grace. To those who heard him preach, it…
At our house, one of the members of our family who plays a unique role in the dynamics of our lives is Scooter, the dog. He’s a small, friendly-natured guy who’s a fixture, really, and part of the everyday routine we enjoy. He’s a rescue dog we got from our local pet store. He usually…
Most everyone knows the story Jesus told about the Good Samaritan in Luke, chapter 10. One man beaten and robbed and in bad shape is along the path of three guys who individually happen by. But only one of them — the guy we now identify as the Good Samaritan stops to help the injured…
Sometimes, I get words in my head that I can’t seem to get rid of. You take, for example, the word ‘always.’ Always is another way of saying, ‘all the time,’ for most people. I could say I always take the same route to work. I’ve noticed that I always put my left shoe on…
When our children were small, we had a tradition of sorts, at our house. Every Sunday evening, my wife would break out the waffle iron, and prepare batter. She’d slice bowls of different kinds of fruit, set the syrup on the table, along with several kinds of homemade jam she had canned herself. She’d set…
Where in the world does the time go, I wonder, when time goes by? And how many times have I used that phrase? As time’s clock ticks the moments of my life away, After a second has passed … Does it go somewhere? Is there some great vault of moments, Where the God of All…
Every year when they run the Indianapolis 500, I always imagine what it would be like to drive the pace car. It’s usually a cool-looking Corvette or some other really fast car that leads the lines of race cars around the track. At just the right moment, seemingly at the very last second, just…
I recently did a review of some of the previous segments I’ve done for Classic State of Mind, things I’ve said in previous broadcasts. Doing so gives me a perspective on what I was thinking at a particular time, about a particular word, you might say. In a previous segment several months ago, I did…
If you were to think back over your last twenty-four hours, who have you talked to? And what did you talk about? In the last twenty-four hours of my life, I’ve probably had four or five dozen individual conversations with various people. Of course, I live with some of those people. I’m related to some…
Not that anyone has asked, but … I’ve got a sore knee. I don’t know if I bumped it, or twisted it without realizing I had hurt myself. But in the last few days, every step I take reminds me not to get too excited about bending my knee because it’s swollen, stiff, sore. It…