Spinning Plates

One year at Christmas my parents gave my brother’s family and mine one of the greatest gifts ever.  They told us that they were going to spend some of our inheritance while we they were still alive and were taking us all to Branson for a family vacation.  This...

Complaining and Murmuring

Last week I had the privilege of sharing a Bible lesson on “Throwing off the Shackles of Complaining and Murmuring.”  It is something I have been thinking about all summer since I first was asked to deliver the lesson.  I quickly told them I had committed...

Go, Set A Watchman

(This post is really late due to some technical difficulties.  It was actually written August 11.) I finished “Go, Set A Watchman”, the latest publication of Harper Lee, over a week ago.  I could have finished the week it came out, but I made myself not...

The Dog Days of Summer

I love summer, don’t get me wrong, I always have.  Today I am tired though.  Not so tired of summer, but tired from the exhaustion that comes with having no set schedule; namely no set bedtime.  I am also exhausted from the heat.  It is isn’t a huge deal...