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To Love - To Life To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you...

Is It In You? Psalm 105:2 (The Message) Sing him songs, belt out hymns, translate his wonders into music! In December 1989 the United S...

No Stairway to Heaven Some of you know I love to play guitar. It's a great relaxer and gives me another creative outlet. If I was any g...

Hiding In Plain Sight When I heard the learn'd astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was sh...

A Scrap of Blue It wasn't really all that big, the scrap of blue plastic that lay in the road ahead of me, as the Great Dane and I made...

Do We Really? So his master said, 'Go out into the country lanes and behind the hedges and urge anyone you find to come, so that the hou...

It Was A Dark and Stormy Night Charles Shultz, the creator of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and all the gang, had success as a cartoonist because ...

Verily, Verily "Expedition V. Rhinoplasty", "Fractious S. Lineart", "Stargazing F. Propensity" all know my na...

Throw the Stone 3The religion scholars and Pharisees led in a woman who had been caught in an act of adultery. They stood her in plain sigh...

After the Doubt "I doubt it." Those might be the words you live by. People have let you down so many times that when you catch ...

Grey - Go Away! It was grey today. In a place that gets over 300 days of mostly sunshine. Everything was wrapped into a big grey package t...

Light In Dark Places I saw the first daffodil of spring today. And every robin within 5 miles showed up in front of my office to remind me...

"When You Get the Chance" A friend and I were finishing a conversation the other day, and right before we ended it, he said ...

A Wee Little Man and a Great Big Question Below is an encounter Jesus had with Zacchaeus. As I read it today, I thought about all the other...

Who Do You See? Macon, GA - sometime in the mid 1960's. Vietnam is only beginning to be a household word, civil rights aren't right...

Aha! "If any of you wants to be my follower," he told them, "you must put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross, ...

The Cost of Christmas Well, it's almost Christmas. The traffic is thicker and our patience is thinner. We're beginning to put one e...

It Could Be Today One of the best things to happen to me this Christmas season is that I've tried to forget everything I already knew a...

Do You Hear It? I will sing of the tender mercies of the LORD forever! Young and old will hear of your faithfulness. Your unfailing love wi...

Holding On To Hope All who heard the shepherds' story were astonished, but Mary quietly treasured these things in her heart and thought...