It's late evening here in Williamsburg and we have finished dinner with the family, returned to Janet's sister's home for the evening and I just finished getting our boarding passes for the flight back home, through Charlotte, in the morning.…
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I'm in Williamsburg this evening - getting ready to go to bed, but my mind keeps going back to thinking about today. So many things happened that just weren't planned. And that's a good thing, because when you are a…
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As you know, I turned 60 in the middle of February. Since then, I have been faced with the reality that we're all getting older. And tomorrow I get to spend the day with my father-in-law and he keeps reminding…
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As you know, the last several days have been filled with turmoil and people across the country are dealing with issues of faith as they face crises in their lives. I have concerns for friends of mine that are struggling…
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This week-end was filled with numerous reports of bad news from around the country. First of all, 27 year old Matthew Warren, the adult son of Rick Warren, Founding Pastor of Saddleback Church, took his own life Friday - the…
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It's way late at night. And there's so much I could write about this evening. If my father was still alive, April 4th would have been his 90th birthday. April 3rd would have been my parents 65th anniversary. No such…
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During our stay here in Alabama, we found out that Helen Keller was born in one of the nearby towns - Tuscumbia, Alabama. It isn't more that 15 or 20 minutes from the hotel where we are staying and so…
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Well, today is Janet's birthday. As you know, we are in Alabama and I am wondering if somebody on the staff here in the hotel put a notice out that today is Janet's special day. I mean she is getting…
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I am writing to you this evening from the Shoals of Alabama. Apparently, the area is made up of several smaller communities that are referred to in a single breath as a region. In particular, we are near Florence and…
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It's Easter. The most important day in the Christian calendar. We're past the Upper Room Passover dinner, the journey to Pilate and the cross, the crucifixion of Jesus and are at the most incredible part of the story - the…
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