ALBERT EINSTEIN WASN’T STUPID Some people, early in his life thought he was. He didn’t really speak until he was about 3 years old. He sure looked stupid – hair all unkempt, pants wrinkled, no socks… He once said, “… if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live
ONE INGREDIENT MAKES A DIFFERENCE Barbara and I were trying to replicate a recipe for a breakfast sandwich we enjoy at a local restaurant. It seemed we had figured out all the ingredients, having ordered this particular sandwich probably a dozen times over the past five years. But, every time we tried making it at
IT STARTED IN THE DEAD OF WINTER While Barbara and I were living in Princeton, New Jersey, two sets of friends joined us in a Spring garden. Steve and Judy, Harry and Janet, and Barbara and I started planning the garden in the dead of winter. It was cold. The nights were long. Snow fell
SMALL STEPS A group of about 20 of us were talking yesterday about our “New Year’s Resolutions”. Quite a few said they don’t make resolutions anymore. Some don’t because it seems like they always break them. Several spoke about their plans to eat better or get more exercise or get rid of stuff in their
GOD SEES What a wonderful and scary truth. God has many “names” in Scripture, such as: Elohim, YHWH, El, El Shaddai, and Adonai. “El Roy” – another of the names for God in the Bible is not used very often. Translated from the Hebrew to English, it means God sees. HOW SCARY. This means ultimately
THE WILL OF GOD?????? I imagine all of us struggle with this. Or, at least, I think we all might benefit if we did. I’m talking about “the will of God”. It seems we are not very careful in the way we use this phrase. Can we even know what the will of God is?
BY ONE POINT, IN THE LAST SECONDS What a game last night. Stetson’s first game of the conference season this year against The University of North Florida. Two evenly matched teams played a great game. The score went back and forth, sometimes up by ten, sometimes down by ten, as in the last minutes of
BINGO I’ll be playing BINGO this Friday night. A whole bunch of others will be joining me. We’ll play in the Fellowship Hall of our church. Some will come from Hugh Ash Manor, a retirement community next to our church. Some will be families from the Weekday School at the church. There will be teenagers,
I’VE STARTED AGAIN I just finished day 3 of a journey that will take me all year. I’ve done this before, many times. It is reading through the Bible, all the way through in one year. This year I am reading a Psalm or Proverb every day, followed by a chapter or so in the