I’ve heard it mentioned that the current period of the Pandemic, with the “isolation and quarantine and masks and sickness and uncertainty”, reminds them of the “Twilight Zone”. The Twilight Zone was the name of a TV series that aired from 1959-1964. It was “spooky and eerie” and  gave you the “willies”. It had this haunting theme song that … Continue reading “Twilight Zone” →

Originally posted on May 16, 2020 “The Take A Breath Moment” I actually know next to nothing about swimming. While I can swim and won’t drown if tossed into a pool, I tend to thrash more than glide. I’m usually exhausted after swimming 10 feet. The other thing that always bothered me about swimming is … Continue reading Classic BLOG from The Past →

Originally posted on May 15, 2020 “Wow…Are You Kidding Me….” Back in 1970 Judy and I took a belated honeymoon trip to Mexico. We flew into Mexico City and saw many of the sights including Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine. We rented a “VW bug” from Hertz and drove through Cuernavaca and Taxco to Acapulco. … Continue reading Classic BLOG from The Past →

September 17, 2020 was an important day. It was the day a very good friend passed to his heavenly reward. I am flooded with so many memories about this good man. Even though his death was not a surprise… he was 90 years old and had been sickly, in and out of the hospital and … Continue reading “Welcome Home, Walt” →

Most of us are familiar with the famous and beautiful passage from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians,( Chapter 13:4-7) …. “Love is patient, love is kind,…love is not jealous, etc, etc., etc..……”  It’s a beautiful and poetic description of love and also describes an essential aspect of God…for God is love. When I read the … Continue reading Patience →

If you’re meeting someone for the first time, it’s good to have some common ground, especially if that person is famous and you’re a bit nervous. Dr. Ben Carson is a retired neurosurgeon who is now serving as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. “He is considered a pioneer in the field of neurosurgery; he performed … Continue reading “The Next Time I Meet Ben Carson” →

What must God think when he looks at the human race? Look over the centuries at “man’s inhumanity to man”… wooooo, boy oh boy…what a mess. Forget about the Hitlers and Stalins and 1994 Rwanda Genocide (1 million murdered in 100 days), just think about the more normal sinful people. If I look at my … Continue reading “Mercy Is Contageous” →

Many of you are familiar with the author Louis L’Amour. President Ronald Reagan knew him and awarded him  the “Presidential Medal of Freedom” in 1984.  Louis  wrote over a hundred novels, mainly about the old west. One of my friends described his books as “literary potato chips”…. once you started, you just kept going, you couldn’t put them … Continue reading “My Soul’s Longing” →

Originally posted on May 14, 2020 “ Am  I  Ready” Sometimes it’s easy to fake yourself out. You think about or say something and you think you’ve actually done it. “You know with this new diet I can lose 30 pounds in 30 days. I’m going to get a new wardrobe; people will start calling me string … Continue reading Classic BLOG from The Past →

Originally posted on May 13, 2020 “Have Hope” Sometimes it’s hard to be hopeful. I’ve been a St. Louis Cardinal fan since I was a baby. I remember listening to their games with my dad in the early ‘50’s from southeast Missouri. After the Cardinals celebrated my birth in 1946 by winning the World Series, … Continue reading Classic BLOG from The Past →