What Is Gratitude? verywellmind.com Gratitude is a positive emotion that involves being thankful and appreciative and is associated with several mental and physical health benefits. When you experience gratitude, you feel grateful for something or someone in your life and respond with feelings of kindness, warmth and other forms of generosity. Grateful or thankful? dictionary.cambridge.org We use grateful to talk about... Continue Reading →
I have had many of you ask about the Ashland project as to my reasoning and longevity and as the elders have said over and over, I/we don’t have clear answers – just ideas. This could come together in less than a year or it could be a long haul. Janet’s week at Brookstone reinforced both... Continue Reading →
I’m listening to a popular TV preacher “refute” the idea of a rapture. He has read from Luke 19 and Matthew 24 and launched into “mocking” those who believe in “two comings.” While I don’t profess to have this prophecy thing all figured out, I have spent some 50 years working on it and not as... Continue Reading →
After a total shoulder replacement surgery, Janet’s legs didn’t recover well and it became necessary for her to go to a rehab facility for some therapy and recovery. While it was not the original plan, nor what she wanted, it proved to be a rich time with people. Shortly after arriving, a voice from the hallway called... Continue Reading →
Today is remembered as the day that Francis Scott Key penned what would become a very, very famous poem later declared to be our country’s national anthem, "The Star Spangled Banner." We don’t think much about the event that provoked the writing of the poem when I think that we should. I believe that it... Continue Reading →
Today we remember the terrifying, evil, destructive attack on our country and on our well-being. We remember the four hijacked airlines that brought down the two World Trade Centers and a portion of the Pentagon (the fourth plowed into the Pennsylvania countryside - Todd Beamer’s “Let’s Roll”). What a momentous morning for the United States! What... Continue Reading →
Genesis 15:13-14, will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions… Strangers in a land not theirs: Exodus 12:40-41, Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and... Continue Reading →
I’ve been stuck for a few weeks in the feeding of the 5,000 men and especially in Mark 6:33-36: But the multitudes saw them departing, and many knew Him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to Him. 34 And Jesus, when He came out, saw a great multitude and... Continue Reading →
Change: Yeah and Ugh! I am so glad that there are aspects of life that don’t change. Things like a 24-hour day or “seedtime and harvest”, like blue Robin eggs or cackling chickens. Things like the beautiful sky of blue or puffy fluffy clouds or a great yellow ball passing overhead. And things like the array of... Continue Reading →
It was August 12, 1993 that Janet and I with the five kids drove into Huron exploring where God might use us in the next phase of life. A Christian high school was very high on the list as Jettie was to be senior and it was our desire that she have a group senior experience... Continue Reading →
a PK Musing 