Annoyed by interruptions

Mondays are my day off and, truth be told, I try pretty hard to shut myself off to the world. I avoid email, social media, phone calls, even (and I’m not saying this is a good thing) conversation with people other than my family. I went to Trader Joe’s...

My son and I are on our own for the next five days. The photo above was taken this morning and shows him, my wife and daughter before Anne and Caroline boarded a bus that will take them to Savannah, Georgia, with about 50 other girls and women on a kind-of pilgrimage...

Ushering as a spiritual gift

I’m on vacation this week so my blog will be a bit dormant. Here’s a post I put up about three years ago: I’ve led different classes on spiritual gifts, but church ushering has never come up as a possible gift.  Hospitality is a spiritual gift so one could...

I’ve never watched Hoarders, but I’m certainly aware of its popularity, which seems to have gone hand-in-hand with a variety of self-improvement articles that stress living a clutter-free life. I’m all for that. Except when I’m not. I received...

I may be one of the few who hadn’t seen this yet, but this is a pretty cool video with Kyrie Irving.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Making the first move

I’m not sure why grade-school romance is on my mind this week (see yesterday’s post), but I was thinking this morning about my first “date.” I’m not sure you can really call it that, seeing as I was probably 11, but it is the first time I...