Ruth Morgan Baldwin Neber Scheets is on her grave marker. She initialed things RBS. I called her Mom. When we’d back to her apartment or nursing home from an outing, which had often been a doctor’s appointment, she would look up at me from her car seat while extending her hand for me to help…

Ruth Morgan Baldwin Neber Scheets is on her grave marker. She initialed things RBS. I called her Mom. She and son LJ4 would often get lost while driving around when he was like in Kindergarten. Rather than panic, she would turn to him and ask, “Isn’t this a fun adventure?” He still uses that line…

Ruth Morgan Baldwin Neber Scheets is on her grave marker. She initialed things RBS. I called her Mom. When she was in her 90s, we moved her to be in the same town as we were. Frequently when I had a wedding I ask if she had any advice for the newlyweds…something I could include…

Ruth Morgan Baldwin Neber Scheets is on her grave marker. She initialed things RBS. I called her Mom. At age 103, while drinking chocolate-flavored coffee on April 25, 2016, she closed her eyes, did a slow head turn from side to side, swallowed, looked at me an announced, “Living is sure good for a person.”

I’ve met Mark through The Fellowship of United Methodists in Worship and Music Arts, and love him and his stuff. So would you. So lemme get outa the way and invite you to hit this link — https://www.r2hub.org/library/lenten-study-session-3-i-dream-of-a-church

“These are the good old days.” — Carly Simon This is the day the Lord has made. —-Psalm 118:24 Thank you for responding to me; you’ve truly become my salvation!The stone the masons discarded as flawed is now the capstone!This is God’s work. We rub our eyes—we can hardly believe it!This is the very day…

For anyone interested, it was thirty years and one month ago and it’s still one day at at time for me, same as you.

“I’ll retire when I die.” —- Dr. Laura Schlesinger

Quick! Check your pulse. Still got one? Good! Then consider this nourishing line of thought from C. S. Lewis — “You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending.”  — So what? So what’s next is up to you. Now.

Becca Ehrlich, last time in this three-Sunday-series, helping us apply Psalm 46:10 — God did not create us to run full-speed through life, never noticing God’s actions. We were made to listen for God and get on board with what God is doing. We are not able to do that if we are constantly running…