Within a month I will be celebrating my 60th birthday – and that’s difficult to believe. It seems like just yesterday that I was a young boy – in fact, I remember way back to the times that I used…
Last week-end, Janet and I attended church and found out that for the next 5 weeks or so, the Senior Pastor will be preaching a series entitled “Mountains will Move.” I’m sure that it will be a very interesting series,…
One of my clients is in the hospital, having had surgery yesterday morning. Late this afternoon, I was asked if I could make a trip to the hospital for a chaplain visit. Every once in a while I get a…
It was on January 13, 1966 that I first experienced the death of a grandparent – my Dad’s father. I wrote about Jacob Toussaint last year on this date, so I won’t go into great detail about him specifically, but…
I was sitting in church this past week-end, contemplating the beginning of the year and those things that I am setting forth as my goals for enriching my journey of faith in 2013. It seems that I feel close to…
I have started having my first of the year meetings with various clients and I have never seen or experienced as much unrest at the beginning of any year as I have in 2013. Even though the election is over…
The last several days I have been thinking quite a bit about time. It seems that everywhere I turn, people are obsessed with the clock. I guess it starts each year as we count down to the New Year and…
As you may remember from last year, my friend Paul and I always speak around the holidays about an overarching theme for the following year. You see, since we entered seminary together, we both had high regard for the burden…