Kindness (Even in the Morning!)

Kindness (Even in the Morning!)

A few years back there was a very funny commercial highlighting back-to-school attitudes. It showed a mom or dad skipping through the store dropping school supplies into a cart. The children, with very sad faces, were slowly dragging their heels behind the parent! The...
Praying for Your Kids

Praying for Your Kids

Soon our kids are headed back to school. For the most part, they have new backpacks, cool new lunchboxes, pencils, pens, scissors and even some brightly colored file folders. You would think that they are all ready. But they are not! They are missing their armor of...
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

The human body is an amazing creation. I am told that we can distinguish some 10,000 different smells. The tissue in our brains weighs only 3 pounds, but there are complex interactions of thousands of synapses taking place at nano-speed that allow us to quickly...
Encouraging Yourself in the Lord

Encouraging Yourself in the Lord

The last several weeks or so have been especially challenging for me. I took a trip up to Alaska to spread my dad’s ashes along his favorite river and then headed to Vancouver to catch a cruise. But I got extremely ill and just came on home. I landed in the hospital...
The Chief Cornerstone

The Chief Cornerstone

I Peter 2:5-8 directs our attention to a cornerstone. That word might be unfamiliar for some of us. It is an architectural term referring to part of a masonry building. It refers to a stone that was set very strategically. All the other stones would be placed in...
Singing

Singing

When I was in the 8th grade, our Catholic school was getting ready for a graduation mass. It was a big deal and our class had several songs to sing. The nun who taught music gathered us all in the chapel for practice. She had a stack of special music books in her arms...