The other day I was working on my computer and after doing a fairly standard cut and paste in the document I had open I had a startling revelation. I had no idea how the computer did what it did. I mean it wasn't exactly putting someone on the moon but still how did this…
Ask Not What . . .
The other day I was thinking about a biography of John F. Kennedy I had watched on A&E. And I gained a whole new respect for a man who was assassinated when I was three years old. (You can do the math) Now I don’t know how you feel about JFK as a man or…
Are You Dead?
Bizarre; that was the first thought that came to mind when I read a news story about a man in Japan who had been discovered dead on the street. The body, believed to be that of a homeless man in his late 60s or early 70s, was found in front of a popular department store…
Don’t call it Luck!
A few weeks ago, when gasoline was at its highest, someone told me how lucky I was that we drove a hybrid. Lucky? My first thought was that many factors went into us having a hybrid, but none of those were luck. We didn’t win it. Several years ago, when we first moved into our…
Loving those with More
The other day I saw a couple of massive motorhomes, and my first thought was to feel bad for them with the current gas price. And then I thought, they are driving a quarter of million-dollar motorhomes. They don’t need me to feel bad for them. And then I felt bad because I didn’t feel…
Walking as Jesus Walked
How many people here walk? We all walk, sometimes we walk short distances, sometimes we walk long distances but for the most part we all walk. It really isn’t rocket surgery. All you have to do is put one foot in front of the other. And in case you have problems with that I googled…
Restraining Orders
I read a great news article a while back. It concerned a man in Kansas City, Kansas by the name of Wesley Fitzpatrick who applied for a temporary restraining order against a female whom he said was stalking him. Fitzpatrick claimed that she was making him “scared and depressed and in fear of my freedom.” The…
A Fisherman’s Tale
You can now order A Fisherman's Tale, at Amazon, or by visiting www.afishermanstale.ca
Thoughts from the Front Row
And just like that, I was sitting in the front row. And I wasn’t sure how I felt about that.Last Friday, I participated in the ordination service at Beulah Camp for our newly ordained ministers. It was special in that two of the ministers being ordained had spent their teen years as a part of…
Houston, We Have a Problem
“Houston, we have a problem!” April 13th, 1970, and the Odyssey’s Commander Jim Lovell uttered words that would go down in History. That wasn’t how Lovell thought he’d be remembered, he thought that he would go down in history as the fifth man to walk on the moon, but a faulty oxygen tank would destroy…