We humans are strange folks our emotions try to prove it! When pain comes our way if it's big enough we cry Warm tears flood from our eyes as though the bad can be washed away somehow, it does help Does anyone know how? Today I'm thinking of the other sort the tears that [...]
Scientists search but can't find exactly all the human dimensions What we call 'heart' a case in point. Neutrinos zoom faster than light continuing to amaze and puzzle Photons gather yet appear in other places continuing to amaze and puzzle Along life's highway babies are born are locked in love for lifetimes continuing to [...]
"All is calm, all is bright Round yon virgin mother and child..."* There comes a moment, Christmas eve, late at night in our house, when the little ones sleep and the packages are set as well as the plans The rounds have been made to gather the gifts the food is all waiting to [...]
For just a few moments my wish for you this evening is that each of you had a rocking chair and we had a just right fireplace right here with a just right assembly of logs burning just right the warmth of the fire on your face the coolness of the room behind you [...]
Life on the oops! edge can sure be a bother! My coffee maker pot just off a fraction of an inch can sure make a mess on the counter... the floor! A slight miscalculation going down the stairs or down a ladder or off a curb or or or can jerk us with pain [...]
It came out again at the annual holiday party “Parkland is really a family” said a long time Parkland person. I looked around the room seeing folks engaged with one another smiles, laughter, concern hand shakes and hugs and men a few kisses on cheeks respecting one another enjoying being with one another The [...]
Summer's breezes lapping leaves of richest green Sunshine drenching eager plants Prairie moments captured, precious like all of nature fascinating! So complex! so intriguing microscopic to thousand acres little snippits of grand designing seen scantly thru a mirror dimly then gone then cascading more tree branches waving 'Morning!" flowers nodding calling "See me!" Robins, finches [...]
A calm, quiet night clear, cold desert air chilling sky blanketed with an ocean of stars A particular, specific star shone down on a particular, specific stable where a little boy was born A first born to a woman young and a Godly man The cover of time slipped back in place Yet, it seems, [...]
They come our way these “Extra Days” a trick in our calendar minds This year Fourth of July lands on Friday Saturday looms 'The Extra Day" All day Friday seems like Saturday Not a weekday lined by work not a Sunday, lined by church So, somehow, in our mind, Saturday is gifted an extra day! [...]
Passages color life sometimes, seemingly, a kaleidoscope A turn here, focus bright times shining passports document places home provinces traveling, entries, stamped Birth to marriage is a passage A given day families and friends assemble (church family too) "In the presence of God and these witnesses" two passports are presented vows taken stamped "Approved!" Enter [...]