Raising up families in Christ
- DRIFTING
I was fishing. It was a beautiful, Maine, summer day. I had a small, motor-less boat. I paddled to the area where I knew the big, lunker bass were waiting for my bait. I threw out my line and waited for a fish to strike.
The process took only a few seconds and I was fighting [...]
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
Have you ever studied philosophy? Looked at the great minds of the great thinkers of all time for their wisdom? Highly recognized, advanced thinkers like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and St. Augustine, are just a very few of the renowned in this field.
Did you ever notice that their great thoughts mostly only lead to one place? [...]
- THE LEAKY ROOF
There’s an ageless story of the man who lives in an older home. The roof of his home has gotten into a state of disrepair and has begun to leak. The problem persists for years. Each time it rains, the man and his family know the familiar spots where the leaks occur and they dutifully [...]
- KNOW-IT-ALL
Back in 1962 a company built an antenna in Andover, Maine and they named it Telstar. The antenna at Andover was a giant horn constructed of aluminum and steel. It measured 180feet long, 95 feet high and weighed 380 tons and was built with the ‘accuracy of a fine watch’. (This was when watches were [...]
- THE GREAT UNKNOWN
If the great unknown is unknown, then how do we know that it’s so great? Furthermore, if it’s so great, why doesn’t anybody know about it?
The unknown has always plagued mankind. The less that’s known; the more it seems to plague us. There are times when we don’t know the outcome of certain events and [...]
- TROUBLE
There is not a lot of interest in being near trouble. We spend most of our lives trying to avoid trouble. Who has been completely successful at this endeavor? It is likely that no one has found complete success there.
How success is truly even measured in this area is not clear. No one completely [...]
- THE TEST
This week, as with many students in many high schools, my daughter is being tested in each of her courses of study. It is the end of the semester and they are having semester finals testing, sometimes referred to as midterms.
I am reminded of the many tests that I faced in my school career [...]
- MINUTE BY MINUTE
Okay, if you’re my age you probably think this is going to be about the Doobie Brothers, if you’re not my age you probably wondering what I’m talking about and who in the world the Doobie Brothers are.
Well, the point is not that popular song and group, but rather the realities of living minute by [...]
- MOM DEFEATS COUGAR WITH RAG
I saw a recent headline which read: “Mom saves son from cougar with rag.” That is certainly an excellent tease to get you to want to read on. We’ve learned by now though, that just because the headline reads one way, doesn’t mean that it isn’t written that way in order to tease our curiosity. [...]
- PEACE ON EARTH
This is the Season when we start to hear a lot about Peace on Earth. We all love the sound of it and we all agree to the concept. This concept, however, is usually interpreted in a personal way. We may look at peace on earth as an earth absent of war. I’m not sure, [...]
