This season is so busy. Christmas parties, family gatherings, last minute shopping, secret Santa exchanges…and the list goes on and on. It’s so easy to lose focus on what this season is all about. There was a very long period of Israel’s history when the prophets of God stopped speaking and Israel did not hear […]
My son motioned goodbye to the guys from the gym. He managed to keep himself together…until the car door closed. That’s when he began to sob. He had fractured his leg and he was in excruciating pain- both physically and emotionally. Just before heading to the ER, I called my sister. She began to pray […]
“I sat in the first row of my first seminary class and I didn’t understand a thing.” My Dad was reminiscing over those early days when he had just moved here. As an excellent student in India, he received the opportunity to move to America to start a new life and study the Bible. The […]
If you lost your sense of taste, what would you be willing to do to get it back? This past Thanksgiving, after a recent bout with Covid, my younger son found himself in that predicament. On the biggest feasting day of the year, he couldn’t taste. Like most teenage boys, my son loves food…so this […]
Lately, there have been fewer employees at the stores I shop at. And what a time for it to be happening in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the holiday season! In fact, while I was at my neighborhood grocery store last week, I noticed how none of the regular lanes were open. […]
“Make sure you call them Daddy and Mommy.” That was my father’s advice to me in the weeks leading up to my wedding. It felt strange to think that I would use those beloved names on people other than my own parents. I had to wrap my mind around the idea, but it started to […]
Today my Google photos made a suggestion for a 2021 year in review photo book. Of course my first thought was that they just want me to spend more money on their products. But as I started looking at my 2021 photos, memories of this past year came flooding back to my mind. In fact, […]
While attending a wedding recently, a friend and I were chatting. Not only had we realized that it had been quite a while since we conversed, but it seemed that was the case with many of our friends who were also at the wedding. What had happened? Oh right … 2020 … ‘nuff said, right? […]
The saying goes that the only person that likes change is a wet baby. I fully embrace this phrase. I do not like change. I can be a slow adapter. I know this about myself and try to keep it in check. When I can sense that change is coming, I start mentally preparing myself […]
After spending my entire life gathered around the Thanksgiving table with family in New York – immediate and extended, it was surreal the first time it was just my family of five in Texas. Don’t get me wrong. We made it special as we set the table and cooked every side dish imaginable. We began […]
#goals
When I was young, I didn’t think too much about what I would look like when I was 52. But here I is. ;-) However, I sure did have visions of what my life would
