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Football Season Brings Comfort
As we flip the calendar into September, I’m getting excited for fall….football, cool air, colorful leaves, and routine. I don’t know about you but I’m always more than ready to return to my routine, my comfortable rut! Guess I’ve always been a creature of habit....
Do You Pick and Choose?
We like to think that we would be thought of as loving, charitable people. We donate our time promoting a worthwhile cause. We contribute our money to help people in need. And we even go out of our way to assist others. But those are our choices. The causes we promote...
Religion or Superstition?
Does practice of religion ever cross over the line to superstitious behavior? This question hit me in the face as we were touring the old city in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Describing this particular old church our insightful guide, informed us that it was built after the...
The Good Ol’ Days
Do you look at the past as a long lost friend, yearning for the “good old days”? Do you pine for the days past when you physically, mentally, emotionally were at the “top of your game”, in your mind? Physically you could run miles before tiring. Mentally you could...
The Power of “One”
Do you ever feel like you are in a rut, plodding through the same thing, day in and day out? Perhaps you feel like a rat running in his little treadmill of everyday activities, responsibilities, and tasks to accomplish? It may be that those lofty goals of joyful...
Anticipation
Summer is here and so is the anticipation of summer vacations. After the humdrum routine of work pressures, family responsibilities, and checking off the daily “to-do” lists, we all need a break. We eagerly yearn for the carefree, schedule free, diet-free, throw your...
Give ‘em a Break!
People seem “edgy”, short tempered! Maybe the testy, hot, “dog days of summer” are taking their toll…. Maybe the adverse political environment is spilling over into our everyday lives….. Maybe our overcrowded calendar brings undue and unreasonable pressure upon us…....
Where is This Peace On Earth?
Just once I’d like to wake up and really find “Peace On Earth”. I pray for it, sing out about it, and scurry around trying to find “peace on earth”. Jesus said, “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your...
What Does a Cross Mean to You?
Every day I pray, “Not my will, but thine be done”. Many times God’s will and mine are juxtaposed leaving me struggling with “why”. I think the simple answer can be found in two straight lines. Many people wear a cross around their neck. Some are plain and simple in...