I'm pretty good about remembering birthdays and sending greetings on FaceBook and other social media platforms. But I confess that today was a busy day - I know more people with birthdays on today's date, August 8th, than any other…
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Embracing Change Through Faith
Earlier this week, Tuesday, August 2nd, was my father-in-law's 100th birthday. Unfortunately, he wasn't still here on earth to celebrate it - he passed away eight years ago this summer - in 2013. It seems like yesterday that we were…
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Today, in church, we sang "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing," an old Christian hymn, now in the public domain but originally written by Robert Robertson. He was 22 at the time he wrote the hymn back in 1757. A…
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It's coming up on that in-between time of summer. July is almost behind us and everybody seems anxious to get on with Fall. I'm not quite there yet. We still have the entire month of August in front of us…
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The last several weeks, in particular, have been filled with family members who have had to make decisions about how they are going to deal with certain life circumstances. As our children and grandchildren get older, and more resolute in…
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