The daughter of one of our colleagues is competing in the Olympic trials in swimming. She has placed very high, and we’re praying she will get a spot on the US Olympic team. As I talked to John Fuller about his daughter, I was reminded of Tom Brady. In 2021 he began his 22nd season […]
I’m amazed at what one can learn when studying all that God has created. Did you know that photons from the sun hitting the earth today are 30,000 years old? Saturn is a wild planet. Winds ten times stronger than hurricane-force swirl at its equator. These winds never stop blowing. Galaxies move at an average […]
How many hours a day do you listen to the news? I read a story this week about an elderly man who grew agitated and anxious after watching the news. To him, his world was falling apart. As I began to think about this, it began to make sense. Wars are happening in several parts […]
My wife is in North Carolina this week taking care of her mother, who is 97 years old and now living in a nursing home. She fell and broke her hip some three months ago. As a result, her life has changed immensely. She now needs someone to give her medicine. She needs someone to […]
I get up early every morning and take a walk around my neighborhood. Every year around this time, we would often see a mallard and a hen behind a large bush, sitting on a nest full of eggs. The eggs would hatch, and at the right time the ducks would bring their young to our […]
A first-grade teacher asked her class, “What do you do to help at home?” One little girl said, “I dry the dishes.” A boy said, “I feed the dog.” Another said, “I sweep the floor.” Each child had an answer until the teacher got to a little boy in the back of the classroom. The […]
I worked for C & P Telephone Company during summer breaks while going to college. One summer my job was to use a bucket truck to take some old wiring down. The bucket that took me up the pole to the wires had a drain in the bottom. One day I was standing in some […]
The Irish potato famine in 1840 is an example of a world-wide catastrophe. More than a million people died in that disaster, while another million or more left home to cross the ocean and emigrate to America. These travelers were driven by hunger and heartache to find some measure of hope for their lives. When […]
When I graduated from college, I applied to medical school. This was the time the Vietnam War was raging, and the only deferment you could get was to attend medical school. I had a high lottery number and didn’t have to worry about being drafted. I ended up accepting a job as a chemist at […]
When I was growing up, my grandmother was the organist at Leesburg United Methodist Church. The piano was the center piece of furniture in her living room, and every time we went for a visit, we could always count on gathering around that piano and singing. I think by the time I was twelve, I […]