AN OBSERVATION – ON LOVE
Back in ancient days when I was in what was then called Junior High School, 8th or 9th grade, one of our English teachers would put an expression on the black board and ask us to explain what it meant. One that has stuck with me to this day is from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116. At […]
AN OBSERVATION – HOLINESS
Sometime back in grade school, many ….. many years ago, we were introduced to the 1913 poem Trees by Joyce Kilmer with its beginning line, “I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree.” The speaker insists that no human art or creation can match the beauty and majesty of […]
AN OBSERVATION: WE’VE CHANGED
Well of course we have with the passage of time. We’ve gotten older. We have a lot more technological innovations changing the way we work and play. We’ve learned new things. Yes, of course all these have changed our physical appearance and the manner in which we live. All this is natural with the passage […]
AN OBSERVATION ABOUT A … WALKMAN?
I am a grandfather and therefore about 40 years removed from raising our five children. But I still think a lot about that era and what my wife and I did with our kids. There were certain patterns in which both Audrey and I were raised, and certain values that we together felt were important. […]
DON’T SETTLE FOR SURFACE COMMENTS, EVEN MINE!
An editorial recently printed in our Frederick newspaper asked the question, What is an American? It was by Fred Fransen, President of Huntington Junior College in W.Va. He pointed out that our country was founded on ideas or principles that have endured up until recent decades. It is again time Dr. Fransen believes to take […]
OBSERVATIONS ON THE AMERICAN POLITICAL CLIMATE
I have never gotten involved in politics except for my own voting preferences. But this year is different, at least in my making some comments about what is happening nationally. Our country is in total confusion and grabbing at straws, primarily because we have lost our central anchor point in our Judeo-Christian foundation. America has […]
WHAT IS SIN?
Sin – now there is an interesting word to start a mid-week morning. But anyone who has read even parts of the Bible know the word and have some thoughts about what sin is. Sin calls attention to laws or values established by God. We don’t relate it to civil laws. We don’t say we […]
Christian Maturity – Part 2
I had intended that Part 2 would come the following week from Part 1, but as usual life happened and pre-planed time schedules must comply. But now let’s continue our look into Christian Maturity. Maybe there was a lesson here that I needed to learn. I ended the least observation saying “It is the willingness […]
Christian Maturity – Part 1
By the title of the book I’ve recently revised, Not For This Life Only, it could be taken primarily as preparing for our life after death. However I don’t consider that the main point of my writing. I am more concerned about the context of our day to day life now. If this is a life […]
We like the Law. It’s easier!
In the last post I mentioned that I was delayed in uploading my post because “life happened and we had to comply”. Well the life that happened was a four day stay in the hospital for my wife who had some respiratory and related problems. We are home now and she is doing well. During […]