“If we knew how great the grandkids would be we’d have had them first!” some people say. For a parent exhausted and discouraged by years of struggling with just getting it right for a day, even one hour of grandparenting can feel lile the balm of Gilead! What can be more refreshing than pushing your…
Category: Death
Lost to us but Present with God!
We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord 2 Corinthians 5:8 This week we said good-bye both physically and spiritually to my God Mother. My Aunt Helen was a blessing, a fixture, a must phone call at Christmas and a favorite of our family…
Crucified with Christ
Once near the end of his life Samuel Clemens was so sick that the newspaper reported that he had died. When Mr Clemens awoke to read story he quipped “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated!” Paul shares a similarly astonishing report with his friends at church. He was in fact dead! But hold…
The Road Ahead
No matter how you were hurt or how greatly you failed Yesterday was the last day of the past of your life – Today is the first of the rest!
Sunrise – Sunset
Maybe you never stopped to think that as our world turns our sunset happens at the exact instant a beautiful dawn is breaking somewhere. That is what the apostle Paul is telling his dear friends. While his own life hastened towards a sunset of suffering the dawn of the light of God”s life was beginning…
