On Tuesday I got a wonderful text from my youngest son, Jacob. He had just passed his FAA check flight as captain. After many years of flight school, flight instructor, first officer, he has now achieved a huge milestone to move to the left seat and be the captain of a commercial airline. Good stuff!… Continue Reading
A friend sent this to me today. Her father had it in some of his old papers. I don’t remember why I gave it to him. I sure don’t know why he kept it. Don’t even know what it meant when I wrote it 50 years ago. What I do know is that your words… Continue Reading
Let’s start out with a confession. I am an Alexa addict. There it is. I said out loud what Doris has known all along. I am hooked on those little hockey pucks that sit all over the house and do what you tell them to do. “Alexa, turn on the hall light.” “Alexa, remind me… Continue Reading
Many, many, New Year’s ago I was a young, religion major at Trevecca Nazarene College (before it was a University.) I took a bunch of classes, some pretty good, some I didn’t care for much. But one of my favorite classes was taught by Fred Huff. Fred was on staff at Nashville First Church of… Continue Reading
Caleb, Mimi, and PoppyC had a blast last night and today. Part of what we did is try to make the Monday Morning Minute video together. It was fun. We weren’t very good. 🙂 That’s okay. I’ll try it again in the morning. For now, let me share the basic thoughts. I don’t imagine that… Continue Reading
Read John 3:1-8 and Psalm 65, and Luke 2:1-5 (from King James Version of the Bible because this is a story that needs to be heard in the King James.) When we married, Doris lived, with her parents, in the same house she was born in. Her Uncle Roy and Aunt Gladys lived across the… Continue Reading
Reading today. Psalm 65 and Ephesians 4:17-32 Josh and Jennifer, Jon-Mical, and Jakson have a fun family tradition. Every year, a couple of days before Christmas, they put on new Christmas pajamas and go on a Christmas light scavenger hunt that somehow ends the same exact place each time, Dunkin Donuts. The event includes family… Continue Reading
In the early days of the church, when there was just one church and it was centered in Rome and all of the services were in Latin a name rose up for Mary, Mater Dei, Mother of God. It described who she was and her special place as the young woman who literally carried the… Continue Reading
Today read Psalm 65 and Galatians 3:23-4:7 My grandmother was a Duck. Not the quack, quack with feathers kind of duck, but the old family name Duck. At least that’s the story I was told. It all gets a little confusing when you try to trace our lineage. We go all the way back to… Continue Reading
Today read Psalm 65 and Isaiah 43:1-11 Well, here we are, the last week of our 40 Days and the week of Christmas. We will end on Friday, December 24, and wake up the next day to all of the joy, excitement, laughter, and fun of Christmas. Or…maybe we won’t. For some, there will be… Continue Reading