I don’t know what the problem has been all these years, but I am SO not a Monday person!  I feel like my brain always fell asleep over the weekend (though I was extremely busy with family, church activities, doing…

Cantata:  a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment. Several years ago when my boys were young, my aunt and uncle invited us to enjoy their church’s Christmas…

As a scientist, John, I know that you know infinitely more than I ever will (or could) about science and God ‘matching up’.  I’ll never forget the message you gave at our church years ago in doing exactly that.  I…

Several years ago, I used to visit terribly poor Gypsy-peasant homes in Romania.  These ‘homes’ would have been condemned in America.  The two-room houses (sometimes only one room) for a family of four to ten were beyond filthy, sparsely furnished,…

Scripture tells us that as followers of Christ we are to be like Him, look like Him, and yes, even smell like Him.  To ‘be’ like Him, in Leviticus 11.44 we read, “For I am the Lord your God .…

Once again, just like that, it’s August.  WHERE did a whole year go – and so terribly quickly?!  I have much to be thankful for in the past year.  God has been so good (yup! – all the time –…

Every year as we celebrate the 4th of July, my heart and mind are drawn to how grateful I am for America.  I say often, “Thank you, Lord, for my having been born and bred in this huge, beyond beautiful…

‘They’ say nowadays that there are almost as many weddings in the month of October as there are in June.  However, I think that in most of our minds, we still think of June as being the ‘wedding-month’.  The thing…

They say to write what you know about.  Well, this is a subject that I really know about!  When I was in high school, I injured my right knee.  The pain was so bad I thought I wasn’t going to…

I wonder sometimes about those who are so preoccupied with day to day life, their future, their kids, their jobs, friendships and just where it is they belong in their journey of life.  I have met those, though, who are…