It is only February and It has been a tough year. I am finding many things to complain about from the lengthening list of unsolvable problems and loose ends. It was during one of my several daily “what have you done for me lately” prayers that my litany of grievances was interrupted by Paul’s words [...]

I have never been to Grand Canyon. In my imagination, there is a spot with a railing at which you look down a bottomless abyss. I imagine it’s an awe-inspiring sight – that is, unless you need to cross the bottomless pit to get to the other side. This week, I talked to two people [...]

There is a movie trailer recently where the smart-alecky star gets pulled over by a traffic cop and he says, “put it on my tab.” It was in the middle of the Good Friday service this morning when I heard God say, “put it on my tab.” It’s a familiar analogy to what Jesus is [...]

You’ve heard it said that “life is a marathon, not a sprint.” It’s true – that life is about making it to the finish line. And it is necessary to pace oneself and live strategically and intentionally, rather than to just go all out, all the time. Remember a few years ago, when someone ran [...]

What would you do tomorrow if you found out today you won the lottery and you now have all the money you need to live? Since you don’t have to work for a living anymore, and since you can literally do only the things you choose to do, what are some things you would stop [...]

I have a weevil problem. You know, these are those tiny beetles that make their way into our homes from store bought pasta and grains. We had an infestation a few years ago when we had to throw away every stick of pasta and every grain of rice in the house in order to get [...]

In the middle of “3:10 to Yuma”, I realized I’ve seen this movie before – and not the old original. A few weeks ago, I rented a DVD called “The Contract” with Morgan Freeman and John Cusack with the exact same premise. Basically, a “cowardly” dad who is struggling to keep his teenager son’s respect [...]

The other day when I was in a sort of automated prayer mode, I caught myself saying, “I love you” to God, as I often do. As with other times when this happened, I was stopped dead in my tracks. It’s not that some how I don’t love God, or that I feel guilty about [...]

I am not sure exactly how we feel God. We don’t have an organ to sense him like the way our ears feel air pressure or eyes feel light rays. I suppose God, whom I believe made us, has the manual to us and knows what cells to push to create a God sensation in [...]

In the “Die Hard” movie franchise, John McClane is the reluctant hero who for years keeps finding himself in impossible situations. One moment he is waiting for his wife at the airport, or bored out of his mind at her office Christmas party. And all of a sudden he is dodging bad-guys bullets and moving [...]