Right up front let me say that in no way am I superstitious (knock-on-wood). I am the kind of person who believes in the practical side of life. One plus one equals two and that is the way I like to live my life. No common core math for me.
I don't like to propagate the idea that one place is more important than another.
An incident happened this past week in which I am still scratching my head. Have you ever known you had something, but for the life of you, you could not find it? I will accede to the fact that occasionally, I do have a streak of absent-mindedness running through me.
February is the month Americans celebrate the birthdays of two unforgettable presidents: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. While we do this officially on President’s Day, many still prefer to do so on the dates they were born: Lincoln on February 12 and Washington on February 22.
Lincoln was a man of many firsts: the first president to be elected without being a native of one of the thirteen original colonies; the first to have a beard; the first to be a Republican; the first to hold a p ...
Having finished my postal business, I was driving out of the Post Office parking lot when I felt a solid bump from behind. Getting out of my car, taking a quick glance at my rear bumper to check for damage and approaching the truck involved in the smash, I introduced myself to the driver and prepared to exchange information with him so we could contact our insurance agents.
That was when I learned we had a problem.
The driver of this big rig didn’t have a driver’s license, which, he explain ...
Now that the pressure of the Old Year is off and the New Year has just begun, I can chill out a little and rest for a while.
Towards the end of the Old Year, there is a lot of pressure to get caught up on all of those stupid New Year’s resolutions I made for the year.
The New Year festivities have died down quite a bit and everything seems calm in our blissful domicile. The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage is back to her routine of organizing and straightening everything up. Her motto is: “A place for everything and everything in its place.”
She is quite faithful in her New Year’s resolutions.
Are you relieved 2015 is in the rearview mirror? Do the headlines have you apprehensive about 2016?
Here are five daily disciplines to make this your greatest year:
1. Rise thankfully.
“Are you having a good day?” I asked a bank teller. “This morning I was able to place my feet on the floor,” she replied, breaking into a smile.
Here we go again, tricked into thinking it is a New Year when there is absolutely nothing new about it. It is the same ole, same ole, Déjà vu all over again. The person who invented this “New Year” ought to be sued for defamation of characterization.
I have seen more New Years than I can remember and have concluded that it is a misnomer.
Does it seem to you that the world, maybe even your life, keeps lurching from one crisis to another? How can we stay calm and content in crises?
Paul, the apostle, claimed he had found the answer to this question: “I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content,” he said (Philippians 4:11).
Felix Finds Christmas this year in our Logos Christmas Musical. He actually finds much more than that. The theme this year is centered on orphans. As we returned from Costa Rica and working in the orphanage there, our hearts were touched by this unique musical written in 2014. The setting is in O›Brian Orphanage, where the annual Christmas play is about to begin. A common thread throughout the play is a sort of narration by the Backstage Boys, and the audience se ...
