Anybody gotta flashlight?

Anybody gotta flashlight?

Anybody gotta a flashlight? For city-dwellers, having an occasion to drive along a road through densely wooded country at night can be surprisingly dark. It’s then you take notice of the absence of streetlights and house lights. If it’s a cloudy night, the dark is...
Bluebirds and cardinals and sparrows…

Bluebirds and cardinals and sparrows…

“I’m somebody ‘cause God don’t make no junk.” Ethel Waters, 1896-1977 Stories abound that tell of, not just rags to riches, but from being a nobody to being somebody, from living in abject poverty to luxuriating in God’s bountiful love. So many books tell this tale of...
That’s News to Me

That’s News to Me

How many news headlines do we read in a week without really reading them? How many news topics do we hear announced in a week without really hearing them? Or how many headlines from this week can you remember? It’s like entering a room and being introduced to 5 or 6...
Just Like Child’s Play

Just Like Child’s Play

When little children talk to their teddy bear, in language only Teddy understands, we find that adorable. Later, when language skills are more developed and they carry on full conversations in make believe play with other children, that, too, is charming. It’s because...
The Road Back

The Road Back

The most prominent characteristic of our God is total, endless, irrepressible joy. He expressed that joy in all aspects of Creation, the capstone of which is mankind whom He created in His image, that image of total, endless, irrepressible joy. He placed Adam in Eden,...