Nuggets

Making Memories…Christmas

When you grow old and your eyes are dim and your joints ache and you can no longer get up and go as you did when you were young, two things will sustain you as life edges toward its conclusion. Can you guess? Your faith and your memories. I never yet heard anyone on a …

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Trouble Brewing! Now What?

“By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household.” (Hebrews 11:7) Do you remember the story? His name was Harry Truman. No, not “The buck stops here” Harry Truman. Not the “Dewey Defeats Truman” Harry Truman. Not the haberdasher from Missouri…not …

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Love ya…

In 2015, researchers at the University of Glasgow found that Scots have 421 terms to describe their country’s wintry conditions, including “snaw” (snow), “sneesl” (to begin to rain or snow) and “skelf” (a large snowflake).  Many languages also have multiple words for “LOVE.” For instance, Spanish has four, Japanese has two, Arabic has four, Greek …

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Use It Up — Wear it Out…

I can still see them now, Dad in a pair of old dress pants…the seat worn shiny and threadbare, a small hole in the pocket where he kept his stuffed billfold, a long sleeved shirt and a hat to ward off skin cancers to which he was prone…trudging behind his lawnmower at age 90, and …

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