The modern-day marathon is based on the story of a Greek messenger, Pheidipples. According to the legend, in 490 BC he ran approximately twenty-five miles from Marathon to Athens to tell of the Greeks victory against the Persians. We have marathons today. Recently, a man ran 100 marathons in 100 days to raise money. Pheidippides […]
Carolyn and I have friends in Bridgewater, VA, who have given birth to three sets of twins. The last set was born just recently and they stayed in the hospital for a good while because they were so tiny. I can’t imagine one set of twins but three sets. They are looking for a van […]
This has been a strange week. We started out with temperatures in the 80’s and 90’s. On Tuesday, there were thunderstorms and hail, and Wednesday brought frost warnings. This spring has been filled with all kinds of weather. Weather is not predictable and we need to expect all kinds. When traveling in this weather, we […]
Have you ever felt compelled to help someone? In my first church, I remember seeing a family pulled off on the side of the road. They had a small fire and looked like they were trying to get something to eat. I was late for my meeting and I didn’t stop. At the meeting, the […]
A fourth grade Sunday school class filled up on Easter Sunday. The girls were dressed in their prettiest dresses and the boys had ties and sport coats. The teacher wanted her students to know that there was more to Easter than new clothes and Easter baskets. She read to them the Easter Story and hoped […]
America’s Got Talent is a popular TV show that shows off talent. There was a five-year-old girl who sang with so much excitement and joy that a judge compared her to Shirley Temple. He said Shirley Temple is living somewhere inside of you and the little girl immediately answered, “Not Shirley Temple, Jesus!” In Paul’s […]
When our grandson was born with Alagille Syndrome, my son began posting updates on his conditions and he would sign everything with “Praying for Silas”. We literally had thousands of people who lifted Silas up in prayer. Amazing now, people are still praying for Silas. Almost everywhere I go, people ask about Silas and say, […]
The War in Ukraine continues. This War started thirty days ago. Reports of children being killed, soldiers dying and civilians dying are everywhere. In 1941, as Hitler’s reign was expanding across Europe, novelist John Steinbeck was asked to help with the war effort. He wasn’t asked to fight but to write a story. The result […]
When I was serving at Ivey Memorial UMC in Colonial Heights, we had a little dog. One day while out with him, I stepped into a hole and fell on my wrist. Both bones were broken and I had to have surgery. I had a metal T-shaped piece implanted. Two years later, I had that […]
There’s a video series called, The Life of Mammals. In this video, the host climbs a tree to take a close-up look at a three-toed sloth. A sloth is the world’s slowest moving mammal. The host explains that going slow is what you do if you eat leaves that are not easily digested and not […]