It was eighty-five years ago – November 9, 1935, to be exact – that Freda Elizabeth Cochran and Lewis Ermon Bean became a young married couple in Washington County, Maine.  I knew them better as Mama and Daddy.  Actually, they were ‘mamaanddaddy’ to me – truly ‘one person’. Their one wedding picture was of them…

I was so tired after being out and about doing so many errands recently – not to mention the ache in my lower back from a recent injury – that I decided I could just absolutely not get back to the house and cook supper.  Picked up my phone and made a quick call to…

This is a familiar story to you — The apostle Paul, formerly known as Saul of Tarsus spent much of his adult life terrorizing and persecuting early followers of Jesus.  He seemed to feel it was his duty – that early Christians had just plain gotten it all wrong!  But then one day while traveling…

I once heard a speaker say that there are three ‘epoch times’ in the life of a follower of Christ.  The first is ‘formation’.  ‘There is a time to be born . . .’  (Ecclesiastes 3.2)  And, August was the month so many years ago that was my ‘formation’ – my time to be born. …

I read this information recently from one, Sir John Glubb, (1897-1986) the British diplomat who studied four-thousand years of human history and who found that there was a pattern to the decline of great nations.  He said that the last stage before collapse is decadence (national massive debt, uncontrolled immigration without assimilation, a loss of…

When I look at my precious orphans in Romania, sometimes I wonder ‘who did she get those beautiful eyes from – her mother or her father?’  Or I look at a little one with his ears sticking out and wonder was it his mother or father who had ears like that?  Whose DNA did this…

Several years ago there was a wonderful man in our church and when we learned that he had Stage Four cancer at only 48 years old, we were all deeply saddened and shocked.  One day for no particular reason, or so I thought, I decided to make this gentleman a fish chowder.  I knew that…

I am amazed, disappointed and definitely bewildered as to how the mainstream, and at one time, evangelical church in America has moved so far from the teaching of the Scripture.  Where the idea – the meme – or from whom it began several years ago, I don’t know, but one-time evangelical pastors are now telling…

When I ‘winter’ for a couple of months in Georgia where my oldest and my youngest sons and their families live, I rent an apartment in a ‘gated’ apartment complex.  It sounds fancy – and safe, but it is really neither.  But, that’s okay.  It allows me to be near my four grandchildren in Newnan,…

February has never been my favorite month of the year.  Actually, no winter month is a favorite of mine.  But, in New England where I come from, February is notoriously known as ‘flu month’ and ‘storm/nor’easter/frigid-cold month’.  That’s not a good combination.  And to boot, it has another – an extra day this month.  2020…