Someone somewhere decided that October was going to be “Pastor Appreciation Month.”  (Probably an under appreciated pastor)  Nevertheless I have personally been a grateful recipient of the appreciation given to me and my family. I just want to say thank you to everyone who made this a great month by showing such kindness.  I can’t [...]

I am headed to a family reunion tomorrow morning.  Somehow the tradition of this particular reunion is to gather at an old country church in the middle of nowhere where some of my “great-relatives” used to go to church, in a town that many of them grew up in many years ago.  There are quite [...]

“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”  That is what Franklin D. Roosevelt said in his first inaugural address at the depth of the great depression.  Roosevelt spent most of the speech reminding the people that most of their troubles dealt with material possessions (or the lack thereof), and that with effort and action, along with [...]

When you are constantly writing emails, letters, updates, and various other things blogging can obviously take a back seat.  I guess for some people blogging is somewhat therapeutic.  For me personally, my life is therapeutic enough that I really don’t need a blog to “download” and decompress, or even “let off steam.”  I feel like [...]