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It’s a Hardknocks Life

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”  James...

God Sings

“The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.”   Zephaniah 3:17...

Life Laboratory

I have been puzzling, struggling, and picking away at a problem for a couple of months.  But life was so busy throughout Advent, I didn’t have the energy or the time to work through it.  I did seem to find snatched moments to stew about it. ...

Communicating My Witness

I reveiwed the archives of my blogging on this site, which has gone on since 2005. I realized that my blogging was fairly consistent for several years- several entries most every month of the year. Then in 2011, the number of blogs dropped precipitously and this year...

Water Sports

Living on a lake has many advantages, the peacefulness of the view being the primary one. We are privileged to enjoy beautiful sunsets most evenings right out our back window. When we moved here seven years ago, we purchased a 3-seater personal watercraft. It has been...

People Users

This week was educational for me. It has been clearly demonstrated to me that addiction is not only, even not primarily, a matter of substance-use; it is a matter of people-use. To paraphase a trite old popular song, “People. People who use people… are the...