2 components of extroversion: assertiveness and enthusiasm. I’m high in both. Which makes me a burden and a total “extra grace required” for many introverts. If I’d known this in my 20’s and 30’s and been more guarded about...
Oct 9,2016 Sermon at Carillon Beach Community Chapel by Cathy Boyd Byrd, UMC Provisional Deacon Today we examine a miracle, up close and personal. Naaman was a military leader of a powerful nation which defeated Israel. To his king, Naaman was a great man. He was...
My prayer of St. Columba was posted on Wednesday morning as Hurricane Ian ambled toward the southwest Florida peninsula. It had popped up on my FB history for that date from a few years ago. What delicious irony and a brilliant red thread of history and grace God...
9/28/2022…. Taliban “refugees” sexually assaulting female US military troops ON OUR OWN bases here in the US. ….. Do you not see the degradation and disdain they are showing for our nation, everything about our way of life, including any professed faith in God,...
Be thou a bright flame before me, Be thou a guiding star above me, Be thou a smooth path below me, Be thou a kindly shepherd behind me, Today – tonight – and for ever -St Columba (?521-597) Irish monk and missionary in...
Jill Carattini, devotional writer, reminds us that God’s ways are not our ways, his thoughts are not our thoughts…….I’ve had a revelation of sorts this morning upon arising. At first glance it was somewhat disturbing. But upon reflection, it...
From 9/28/2016; There are some, I expect, who wonder why I, at 62, continue to explore new “vistas”, pursue new goals, and continue going after ministry activities and opportunities with passion and energy…..because that’s who God made me to...
A tale of two perspectives: #1: posted by Rene Evans: This is attributed to Dr. Fauci. The facts about the respective diseases are easy to check.  From Dr. Fauci: “Chickenpox is a virus. Lots of people have had it, and probably don’t think about it much once...
from 9/28/2020 What good does it do to continue in the body if one’s spirit and soul are strangled to death by isolation, anxiety, loss of the important relationships and activities of one’s life? Only those who are willing to sacrifice that biocentric view of...
From Our Daily Bread: The eye never has enough of seeing. Ecclesiastes 1:8 “Frank Borman commanded the first space mission that circled the moon. He wasn’t impressed. The trip took two days both ways. Frank got motion sickness and threw up. He said being weightless...
