Frustrating, isn’t it?  How there are so many wrongs in the world that we have no power to make right  ... The truth is we folks struggle our whole lives to overcome the darkness within our own souls, in the only place where we have some leverage.  The farther out we...

“Look at those birds!” I exclaimed to my Smitty as we squinted across the inlet of the Great Atlantic flowing into the Nauset Salt Marsh, across to a sandbar littered with small, black figures.  I left my binoculars at home, so we’d have to simply marvel from a...

The Parable of the Dog, the Mud and the Hill   A few weeks back we had a lot of rain.  A few months back, we got a German Shepherd/Lab mix puppy.  And a few millennium back, the forces of erosion, tectonic plates, (and who knows what other natural phenomena)...

“You May Be Right”..Giving Up the Need to Have the Last Word   Four words might possibly change the tenor of your whole day…perhaps, in time, the climate of a whole culture.  Those words: “You may be right…”   As the consummate first-born, bossy big-mouth, I...

I know better, but I did it anyway.   Out on that vast expanse of negativity and hopelessness, the internet, I was looking for relief.  When will the vaccine make it possible for my friend to have her disabled son home again for the weekend?  When will the...

Hospitality: The Meat and Potatoes of Love   So much of the life of discipleship (learning to live like Jesus would if he were you) is lived on the plain.  It is certainly not walked out on the great heights of spiritual ecstasy, or the powerful platforms of...