Aug 7, 2018
Dear friend, On a cold January 2017 evening I came into the district parsonage and went straight to the already-burning fireplace. (It’s gas … I don’t want you thinking Mona is chopping wood and building fires for “her man” to come home to.) Mona called from the...
Jul 1, 2018
Somehow over the years I have been “the flower person” at our house. That is, every spring I make my trip(s) to the local garden shops to pick out this year’s annuals and then plant them. Other types of flowers have come along, too. Somewhere along the way I got into...
May 19, 2018
In the 1800s, after the crops were in the ground and with both a desire for spiritual nurture and social interaction, our pioneering forefathers began to come together during summer weeks. I am told these earliest “encampments” were first in Kentucky and spread from...
Apr 1, 2018
This April 1 is different than any I remember … It is Easter – and, of course – “April Fools’ Day.” In that district superintendents are “not needed” on Easter, I have not preached an Easter morning message since coming to that role. (However,...
Mar 1, 2018
On this March 1 the weather is lousy … it has rained hard all morning, the wind will nearly blow you away and now the precipitation has turned to something “ice-like.” The sun, of course, is nowhere to be seen, leaving everything in a depressing gray. When I was in...
