A new year! Opportunities all around, for good or for ill. How will we use those opportunities? Will we make no resolutions at all, or will we make resolutions we forget by February? At the end of each year, I look back over the year and the goals I have set and the strategies I … [Read more…]
Mere Christianity is a classic in Christian literature. I read it years ago, and recently listened to it as an audiobook. It was read by a British gentleman whose accent made it seem as though C. S. Lewis himself were sharing his ideas with me. I was especially struck by the timelessness of his comments. … [Read more…]
You may have noticed that stores everywhere—department, grocery, gift, right down to Dollar Tree—seem to have skipped Thanksgiving. The displays and decorations went right from Halloween to Christmas. In a way, that’s deplorable. After all, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year! I love the special food and getting together with family and friends … [Read more…]
The most devastating wildfire in California, a state of many wildfires, is still raging near where my brother Larry lives. It’s “the most” in every way—acres burned, houses destroyed, lives lost. “Camp Fire” sounds cozy and idyllic until it’s the name of such a fire. It’s now, since it began Thursday morning, only 30% contained. … [Read more…]
When I am in distress, I turn to Psalms. (“Palms,” as my friend Valerie persists in saying.) David and the others who wrote Psalms had all the ups and downs that we have today. Feeling vengeful? You can find a Psalm to relate to. 4 May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; … [Read more…]
We all have favorite Bible verses, but do you have certain books of the Bible that you turn to for specific needs? One of my favorite books is Proverbs. Such wisdom, so well expressed. Proverbs 22 is a chapter that abounds with incisive sayings. A well-known verse is the first one in that chapter: “A … [Read more…]
It’s interesting when summer itineraries collide in unexpected ways. The only vacation we planned for this summer was to go to New England in mid-September—after school started and before tourists seeking fall color invaded. We flew into and out of Boston, driving up the Maine coast, across Maine and New Hampshire into Vermont, down Vermont … [Read more…]
Remember how you feel when you visit someone whose house smells like your grandmother’s house smelled? Or you see those crocheted doilies and immediately you’re back in your childhood? That’s kind of the way I felt on Sunday. We were traveling through Quechee, Vermont, watching for a church to stop at. We knew Churches of … [Read more…]
Life with Steve Boyd is always interesting, so I decided to share a couple of examples. Today we unexpectedly had a chance to eat out after church, so we went back to Veracruz, an excellent, relatively new, Mexican restaurant in Price Hill of Cincinnati. A Hispanic family came in soon after us, verifying to us … [Read more…]
As you know, if you’ve been reading my blog very long, I have no theme. I don’t stick to writing about words and nature, as does my friend Kenda Turner. I don’t write about travel, as does my daughter-in-law, Gina Boyd. I don’t have the deep spiritual insights of my friend Connie Huddleston. I don’t … [Read more…]
