Our Proper Response

Our Proper Response

It was exciting! I’d been accepted in a Master’s Program of Counseling, something I’d long dreamt of doing. So, after graduating with my Bachelor’s Degree, and visiting with friends along the way, I was only slightly jarred by the experience at the border crossing...
Way More than We Know

Way More than We Know

Of all the disciples, maybe, for Jesus, Peter ‘took the cake.’ Maybe it was Peter’s impetuous nature that caused Jesus to stifle a giggle most often (like parents who don’t want to be caught smiling after one of their children has done something naughty, but in the...
There’s provision for that

There’s provision for that

This thought may occur right after a sumptuous B&B breakfast: “I won’t need to eat again today.” Or it may occur (with a slight groan) after an unusually copious restaurant lunch. It is somewhat embarrassing then, when in late afternoon, the search begins to find...
A Charge to Keep

A Charge to Keep

I was impressed! A young guy sent by the juvenile court system to the Teen Challenge center where I was teaching, was always ending his responses with, ‘Sir.’ He presented himself as extremely polite, well-mannered, respectful. It wasn’t long before I discovered that...