Devotional

Today, our oldest daughter, Kristin, celebrated a birthday. How I remember the day that she was born! Janet was in labor for almost 36 hours and finally at 12:32 p.m. on June 25, 1975, Kristin arrived. I was there in…

Once again, it's Father's Day. It's been a somewhat strange week and I have actually gone back and read some of my posts from prior years on the topic - it's been a part of my remembering years past, which…

I learned a new word yesterday - and it's the title of tonight's post, Sunflecks... Clearly, this has something to do with the center of our solar system but I really didn't have any idea what it meant. So... I…

Janet and I spent the weekend traveling to Oklahoma on a mission to deliver some material. It was pretty much down and back with one night on the road. In fact, we drove about 1100 miles and were only gone…

...is love, sweet love... It's the only thing that there's just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.  (by Hal David and Burt Bacharach - 1965) The…

I have now written more than 1550 posts and I have come to follow a process for writing. Rarely, if ever, do I try to come up with a topic for the evening. In fact, I just wait and experience…

This week, on June 2nd, marks 42 years since the death of my father back in 1978. And tomorrow, June 5th, is the 42nd anniversary of his funeral and burial. I have written about Dad many times, and how I…

The last several months have been unlike anything that we have seen in most of our lifetimes. We have socially distanced, washed repeatedly, isolated ourselves in our home and adjusted to all sorts of protocols that have never been forced…

It was one year ago today that Jill and our grandson, Drew, moved back to Indiana from Oklahoma. Janet and I had assumed that we would no longer have all our children within minutes of our home when Jill made…

It's amazing to me when I consider all the teaching opportunities that we, as adults, have to impact our younger generations. Several days ago, our local car wash opened up again and started doing car interiors. Since it has been…