April 9 every year draws me to Virginia. April 1-12 rolls around and I wind up in a home in Appomattox Court House, VA (a small town east of Lynchburg). On April 1, after a ten month standoff, the Union forces gained a couple of strategic victories forcing Lee’s Confederate Army to abandon their trenches... Continue Reading →
Last night brought an end to the season known as March Madness which is about the 68 NCAA basketball teams selected from among some 300 to compete to be the 2019 National Champion. Once the field of teams is selected, many people join others in filling out a bracket, picking winners and losers, hoping to... Continue Reading →
Fifty years ago today I shifted departments on the railroad moving from the car department to transportation – I went from a 154 man oiling boxcar journals (no such thing today) to a switchman with the number 1120. After a big hiring spree in 1968 due to the opening of a new hump yard, hiring was... Continue Reading →
“Earth Hour” 2019 was March 31 at 8:30 PM. Peoples all over the world turned off their power to both save energy and as a statement about climate change and the need to address the problem. So for an hour the lights were turned off – at least some were off. Is it we ultimately want to... Continue Reading →
John Rosemond (April 1, 2019, Omaha World Herald) writing in response to the recent college entrance scandal where-by celebrities were buying entrance into elite schools for their children. Some quotes from his article: There are three factors at work here: First, parents and children in question…believe they are entitled…believe three things that until recently were... Continue Reading →
Death has been a haunting reality at SSB over the past days. We, the SSB family, have been beset by mankind's enemy four times in the month of March - Steve, Deane, Freya (Hewett's granddaughter stillborn), and Betty (Becky Stauffer's mother). The loss and pain affect us all. We, along with most of eastern Nebraska,... Continue Reading →
Some things about marriage I have expressed over the past days: The prophet Amos instructs us that as it is wrong to yoke an ox with a donkey, so it is wrong to yoke believers to non-believers. Therefore, a guiding principle in determining who one should marry is “Are they both believers or both non-believers in... Continue Reading →
At the monthly men’s breakfast, the topic presented concerned priorities, which got me thinking - musing! I’m going to lay out what I think should be our top six priorities and their order. The challenge is that priorities don’t always entail a proportionate amount of time compared to their importance. Thus time and talk with God is almost... Continue Reading →
Unique days we have just witnessed and are encountering. Who would have thought of Fremont, NE being an island? Who would have anticipated every major west artery into Omaha damaged (Maple, Dodge, Center, and Q)? Who would have imagined standing with the Plagmans and looking west from their driveway at blue all the way to the bluff... Continue Reading →
So much we hear today is about “you”. “You deserve” has become a huge marketing tool to the point of being obnoxious. Then there is “you” being a “hero” for going to work or providing a roof over your kid’s head. Really? There is the horrible theology out there propagated by preachers quoting half of Philippians 4:13, “I... Continue Reading →
a PK Musing 