Sixty months from now …

Sixty months from now …

Disclaimer: I am not the planner in our household. I do not have a file folder with a series of five-year plans which I’ve plotted out over the years. If I had one folder so entitled, it would be empty. I am mostly the spontaneous, put-it-together-at-the-last-moment,...
Happy, Delicious New Year!

Happy, Delicious New Year!

When I was a child, I thought like a child and ate milk chocolate like a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things and began to eat the more manly, dark chocolate (with all due deference to the Apostle Paul). I must add that the entirety of my...
What more can be said?

What more can be said?

They present themselves early in life – the big questions: “Will I make it? Do I have what it takes? Will I measure up? Will I qualify? Will I be accepted? Will I be loved?” When a group of kids picks teams to play softball, the shy, less-coordinated kid asks. When...
“What if .  .  .?”

“What if . . .?”

Sometimes you hear someone say something like, “If you knew that today was your last day to live, what would you choose to do?” But I’m thinking about ideas that are in another direction entirely. I wonder what would happen if we were to luxuriously marinate in the...
What’s On Your Reading List?

What’s On Your Reading List?

“There are so many other things that Jesus said and did; and if these accounts were also written down, the books could not be contained in the entire cosmos.” This is the last verse of John’s Gospel (VOICE), written nearly 2,000 years ago. In the centuries since, much...