As I write this devotion, another Hurricane is getting ready to hit Louisiana and Mississippi. Can you imagine how those folks feel? They can’t get their property repaired from one hurricane before another lines up to hit them! I remember when Isabel hit the Norfolk area, there was devastation everywhere. UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on […]
When I served as the Portsmouth district superintendent, I once went to a church and sat down. I hadn’t been there long when a lady came to me and said very loudly, “You’re sitting in my seat!” I apologized and moved. She looked at me and said, “Who are you anyway?” I told her I […]
I love to study what we know about our universe and realize there are millions of other universes out there that we can’t see and know nothing about. Yet, we know they’re there. Our God, who created the sun and the moon, has created far more than we can imagine. We are just now seeing […]
My grandfather was a wonderful man. He loved his children and grandchildren and worked hard! He could tell you how to butcher a hog, or make hay, or raise a garden, but he had trouble with outer space. I remember him telling me that man did not land on the moon. He said the spaceship […]
I took my granddaughter to a birthday party before COVID hit our land. The birthday party was at a shopping center at a business that entertained the young at heart. Cammie was at the party for over an hour, and I sat in the middle of the shopping center watching people. Have you ever done […]
With all the hurricanes over the past several years, I’m remembering when Hurricane Isabel hit Virginia. Isabel came up the Inlet Waterway and hit the Virginia Beach-Norfolk area and then travelled north to the Chesapeake Bay. It then did a U-turn and came back and hit the same area again. Carolyn and I were living […]
We have always known that loneliness is real and destructive to our health. The pandemic has kept millions home and has slowed to a stop the travel industry. Most of us have never experienced anything like this isolation and loneliness, and hope we don’t ever have to again. Loneliness is one of the greatest threats […]
My mother died when she was seventy-two. She died from Alzheimer’s, which stole her mind starting when she was 59. Mother was a registered nurse and served in World War II. She was also a violinist, and her mother was a concert pianist and organist. We sang at our house, and I mean we sang […]
Have you ever said something you regretted? My dad and I built our home in Leesburg. We were nailing shingles on the roof one day when I hit my thumb. The first word out of my mouth was not a nice word and, who would be on the ground listening, but my mother!I got my […]
There’s a book out with this title, Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? It has often made me think. In 2020, Hurricane Laura hit Louisiana and Texas with winds of 150 miles per hour and a storm surge of up to 20 feet. That’s not just a storm – that’s a killer storm. […]