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            The other day I was driving down the road and met a car with a big yellow “Student Driver” sign on top of it. I sensed a teensy wave ripple across my placid mental waters and realized it was an irrational concern that this rookie driver might freak out and barrel into me.            … Continue reading Keeping It On the Road

            I’m not going to appear very spiritual by admitting this, but having undergone two melanoma surgeries in the past eight weeks, at times I’ve allowed myself to get altogether too fearful and paranoid about the cancer bogeyman who seems to be stalking me. I now squint and glare at every little freckle like it’s… Continue reading It’s Good to be in God’s Hands

  Have you noticed the steady stream of news stories recently about people seeing what they interpret as “holy” images etched, hatched, birthed and baked on all kinds of unusual things?     One lady, for example, is dead sure she can see the face of Jesus on her iron. This snagged her a two-minute gig… Continue reading Holy Cow and Heavenly Eggs?

            Sometimes I wonder why we Christians get so bent out of shape when folks who don’t care about Jesus want to try to “remove Him” from Christmas. Imagine that your birthday is declared a national holiday. YOUday. Businesses and schools close, parades are held, songs are written, and gifts are exchanged, all to celebrate… Continue reading It’s the Christmas Inside That Counts

Were you ever guilted into cleaning your plate because of “all the starving children in Africa”? While it’s hard to imagine that I ever had to be encouraged to eat, I do recall my mom occasionally employing the starving children tactic to get me to down those last, difficult bites of lima beans or liver.… Continue reading “Luxury Worries” Dull Thankfulness

 After he regained consciousness, I’m pretty sure we’d be on our way lickety-split to a hardware store, truck dealership, or farm equipment place.     While that scene is unlikely to ever actually happen, I have, in the past, offhandedly mentioned that perhaps a new computer, or an IPOD, or a high-def T.V. might be nice. Whew… Continue reading A Diamond or a Truck?

                Okay, raise your hand if you don’t know that obesity is a growing problem (excuse the pun) in the United States. If your hand is raised, then you’ve obviously: a.) been backpacking in the Himalayas for the past decade; b.) never actually read this newspaper; or c.) chosen to dwell in a state of… Continue reading Have You Gotten the Message?

    (Disclaimer: If you’re reading this while eating your morning cornflakes, you might want to set it aside and pick it up later when your tender sensibilities have had time to toughen up.)     I was recently pretty sure a herd of elephants had died in the woods surrounding our house, which was actually a… Continue reading The Power of a Smell

Most of us arise every morning assuming it will be just another day. But sometimes it isn’t. Just ask this lady who experienced one of life’s bizarre “suddenlies”…                 Leighann Niles was traveling down a highway this summer in northwest Ohio when suddenly, a fish crashed through her windshield. It wasn’t hurled off an overpass;… Continue reading Just another day? Maybe Not.

                What’s up with all the crazy, embarrassing, public outbursts recently? Foot-in-mouth disease seems to have replaced swine flu as the epidemic du jour, and politicians, athletes and celebrities are dropping like flies.                 We had just about gotten over, or at least gotten used to, Gov. Sanford’s tortuous quest to snag a gig on… Continue reading Foot-in-mouth Disease is New Epidemic