I was driving through a town where I used to live and stopped to get coffee.  Things looked so familiar and yet so different.  Time has a way of changing things.  It was my mom's birthday, and I have had

This time of year is full of graduations, retirements, and endings. I have several friends who have posted their retirements from the education field. Lots of the students we have loved for many years are now making the rounds in

If you have followed this blog, you know that I have had several unwelcome "guests" in my yard through the years. But with all of the recent rain, a new one has arrived. He packs his bags and acts as

I've been reading the Old Testament since finishing the 90-day challenge of New Testament reading.  It's always harder to read, partly because it's talking about events that are many centuries farther back in history than Jesus' era, and partly because

Trust is a strange thing.  It must be earned and sustained.  We tend to be flippant about it, though, and we say we trust things that we don't really trust.  I have read a variety of studies that claim that