Spiritual Directions for the Journey
Posted in Big Questions, Parents and Kids on Apr 9th, 2012
On this Easter Sunday I am reflecting on life, death and new life. It has been a busy and hectic week. In the church business this is the big one. It begins with Holy Thursday, Good Friday, which included a powerful evening celebration of the Way of the Cross with the Good Thief at the [...]
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened..., Parents and Kids on Mar 18th, 2012
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened... on Mar 10th, 2012
Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not us! We want people to know ‘why’ we look this way. We’ve traveled a long way together and some of the roads weren’t paved.
Posted in Parents and Kids on Mar 4th, 2012
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened... on Mar 2nd, 2012
A distraught senior citizen phoned her doctor’s office. ‘Is it true,’ she wanted to know, ‘that the medication you prescribed has to be taken for the rest of my life?’ ‘Yes, I’m afraid so,’ the doctor told her. There was a moment of silence before the senior lady replied,“I’m wondering, then,Just how serious is my [...]
Posted in Parents and Kids on Mar 1st, 2012
Posted in Parents and Kids on Jan 16th, 2012
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened..., Parents and Kids on Jan 5th, 2012
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened..., Parents and Kids on Nov 30th, 2011
One of the joys of doing the blog is that folks send you links like this one. With over 8 Million hits on YouTube (approaching Lady Gaga numbers) this grace before meals offered by Mary Maxwell is one to remember. You need to stay tuned for at least a minute when all of sudden and [...]
Posted in Parents and Kids on Nov 27th, 2011
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened..., Parents and Kids on Nov 10th, 2011
I am not sure what this video says about our modern day society. Is it a comment on how upset kids get at the loss of a few candy bars or does it say more about parents who are willing to tease their kids so completely in the hopes of getting on national TV? Perhaps [...]
Posted in A Funny Thing Happened..., Parents and Kids on Nov 9th, 2011
This past weekend I attended the wedding of my nephew and his lovely new bride. As is so often the case these days they come from quite different cultural backgrounds. Observing the proceedings was fascinating and led me to think that perhaps in another life I was an Anthropologist. I found this definition of what [...]
Posted in Parents and Kids on Nov 3rd, 2011
Posted in Parents and Kids on Sep 29th, 2011
I once heard it said that new technology is anything invented during your lifetime. It would then seem reasonable that the later in one’s life a new way of doing something is introduced the harder it is to adapt to it. One such invention is the world of “texting”. So for the fun of it [...]
Posted in Big Questions on Aug 30th, 2011
I was searching for a picture for a post called A Child of Mine which is a poem by Edgar Guest. This is the picture I found which was taken by Crystal Theresa Zapanta. Here is how she describes herself in the posting on a site called still life 365: I live in San Francisco [...]
