Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. —St. Francis. Whether or not you and I make New Years Resolutions, or regularly set goals for ourselves, or just wanna have a better day today…St. Francis sure gives us a great place…

Somewhere in last evening’s College Bowl marathon* there was a clip from a news conference that has haunted me.  But not in a good way. It happened at the annual Beef Bowl, a banquet before The Rose Bowl. Mark Asper, an Oregon…

“Yeah, so far his flight’s like twelve minutes late, but  we still — gotta go, there’s his plane!” All I could really see clearly in the airport’s window wall last night was a reflection of the crowd waiting to board…

Lost in the woods. Not a good sound to that phrase, is there?  But it’s where  the young Howard Thurman was,  lost somewhere in the thickly-wooded hills farther from home than he’d ever been.  And it was beginning to storm.…

The Cold Laser burned my eye. My retina, to be exact. The surgeon could not have been better and the rips in my retina are repaired. But walking back into the doctor’s office for an annual follow-up, that green laser…

“The people that walk in darkness” sounds either ominous or silly. Walking around in the dark, bumping into something, tripping over something else, or being hit by the unseen can be scary at the very least. But walking around in the…

She took me to the hospital. I kept insisting to still-newlywed-Patty that it really wasn’t that big of a deal. Trying to get back into bed without waking her, without turning on light, the table hadn’t been exactly where I’d…

Again, thank you to all who’ve been sharing about your favorite Christmas lights! Some on here (leave a comment today), some on FB (always good seeing you there), some on my cell phone (anytime)  and several in person around town…great…

Clark Griswold aside, my favorite Christmas Lights are caught in a two-way tie: lights on a Christmas trees by a window, and the candles on a church’s Advent wreath. The lights on our tree at home celebrate all sorts of…

According to today’s reading in a great devotional book Tony Campolo recommends, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, Dec. 6 is Feast of St. Nicholas Day.     Two certainties are that he entrusted himself to Jesus Christ at…