“Have You Ever Put a Worm on a Hook?”

Tonight, in my almost nightly conversation with my former Alabama neighbor “Dear Hellen” (aka Miss Hellen!), we went from topic to topic as we often do. She tells me about her day and I decide what to tell her about mine…tonight…she mentioned the new neighbors now have ten chickens that free range and go in and out of the coop I built. That makes me do a happy dance! For many reasons. I wish I could write funny stories about...

‘Stop Telling Us What God Has Said’

I go through times where I’m troubled in various ways and often find myself awakening during the night into times of prayer, contemplations, song…and last night…even into dance at the foot of my bed. When we are pressed by many cares, and have many cares for many things and many others, where else can the Jesus follower turn but to Jesus? I was unnaturally worn out last night and was in bed rather early. During the night I awoke, and...

The Power of Two

I had not been vertical for very long this morning and was about to go downstairs to start my coffee when something sort of unusual (for a Saturday morning, or any morning, or any time of the day actually…) happened. Perhaps in your world this wouldn’t be too unusual, but in my world it felt unusual. I had heard a firm-but-light knocking at my front door. Yep, that is unusual. Perhaps I’m making a mountain out of a molehill, but...

The Hostage-Taking Therapist

I just read the latest article in my inbox from my substack article subscription to Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) and it seems like another worthy of passing along, with hopefully just a few limited comments I have about the matter. The article is written by a therapist and is titled A Letter to Parents from A Concerned Therapist. I formed my blog piece title here as a spin-off, subtopic that this piece generated in my own thinking...