Nuggets

…Soon it will be Christmas day…goes the song. Follow on to last week’s Nugget. How will you celebrate the day this year? Will it be just be business as usual? Lights up right after Thanksgiving, tree up early in December, drag out and dust off all the ornaments, shop til you drop for aunt Sue […]

Dear LORD, my God and Father, as we draw closer to the day when we celebrate the once in history of Your coming to be living as one of us here, take my heart to the hillside with the shepherds who watched their sheep. Recreate in me the same sense of awe and wonder which

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

I never get tired of talking about Random Acts of Kindness with couples. It all started when Jesus washed His guys’ feet and told them to go do the same. Gary Chapman’s 5 Love Languages Quiz (https://5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/love-language) is a grand way to discover what blesses your spouse. It is so important to learn to love

“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

Victim or The Yoda Principle? There are two words which grate on me like fingernails on chalkboards for those of you who remember slate chalk boards. They drive me nuts. CAN’T is one and TRY is the other! I hate both of them because they are the private preserve of victims and quitters everywhere. Let me explain:

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

When a spouse cheats, what should the innocent party do next? If you’ve ever discovered a spouse’s affair, you know that facing infidelity in your marriage is a heart-wrenching experience. It may be as simple as an office flirtation or sexting or pornography or it may a full blown sexual affair. Whatever you discover, you

I had a request to repost this one. It’s a special memory for me…so here you go. A simple question. Do you live in Groundhog Day? One day following another…exactly the same. Get up, do your bathroom stuff, make coffee, maybe have breakfast, get kids’ lunches ready and them off to school, get ready for

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