Furnished and Ready

This morning I read all the Gospel writers’ accounts of the Last Supper (Matthew 26, Mark 14, Luke 22…John tells his version, too–John 13–but does not include the part I’m referencing in this post).  I know that what actually happened at that most unique Passover meal is what we usually focus on as significant–and rightly [...]

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Live to Serve

I was just filling in some info on my son’s registration form for CDYC.  That is our denominational youth conference held each summer.  A new location for the conference this year apparently will offer some new opportunities.  Students are given the opportunity on the form to express an interest in a service activity.  “Live to Serve” is the [...]

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Dance with Mor Chikins

My youngest son works at Chick-fil-A, the fast food restaurant where goofy cows advertise, encouraging the customers to “Eat Mor Chikin”.  I would never have thought up such a marketing campaign because I lack whimsicality.
Yesterday, I went to a wedding reception that might have been put together by the cow guy for all I know.  [...]

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Tapioca Weather

There is a saying in Indiana:  “If you don’t like the weather, just wait for (an hour or two) (a day or two).”  (I think that’s it; I think, too, that it has probably been the saying as well in other states I’ve lived in–Michigan and Arkansas.)
We have had everything in these late weeks of [...]

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Relative Pain

Can there be degrees of pain?  Are there degrees of pain in God’s eyes?
In a group in which I conversed last evening, pain ran the gamut:  two mothers of the conversationalists, up in years, dealing with cancers, one recurring, one newly discovered; two parents trying to decide what is best for their teenage son’s future [...]

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