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The Long and Short of It
There are long good-byes and there are short good-byes. One person lingers at the doorstep, another makes a bee line for the exit without looking back. The “goody-bye” part that is always there. The last Sunday for Susan and me will be June 12, and these weeks will be filled with gratitude and love and […]
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The GOAT
“The Last Supper” by Fritz von Uhde (1886) It was yet another dispute when all he was hoping for was a nice, quiet, peaceful meal – was that asking so much? It seems this time it was, and the dispute won out. The “disputers” and the “disputees” brought their dispute to him in order to […]
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Be My Valentine
Some years ago on Valentine’s Day, a young man came up to me, and said, “Dad, How do you spell Dummkopf?” “Three years of high school German,” I blurted out, “and the only word you remember is Dummkopf? And you don’t know how to spell it? Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t think you […]
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Lavish Love
Many years back came the story of a New York City man who had been kidnapped. The kidnappers had contacted the man’s wife with the demand for a $100,000 ransom. The wife, however, was able to talk the kidnappers down to $30,000. Side question: Who knew that such ransom demands are negotiable? (Side note: Eventually […]
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Ground Hog Day
In 1993 the film “Groundhog Day” played in movie theaters around the nation. If you know the story, then you know that Phil the weatherman is dispatched to Punxsutawney, PA to broadcast the weather report from the center of Groundhog Day celebrations. But Phil the weatherman gets caught in a time loop, endlessly repeating Groundhog Day […]
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Stand by Me
“Christ Asleep during the Tempest,” Eugene Delacroix, c. 1853. Maybe you have heard the old joke, “I finally got a full eight hours of sleep! It took me three nights to do it, but I got it.” A penny for your thoughts: Was Jesus a heavy sleeper? A tabloid headline back in the day might […]
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Spring Training
Although Cleveland baseball fans—on the premise that they suffered long enough on earth—might think that all Cleveland baseball fans will go to heaven, that isn’t always the case: One day, when one fan’s last out came, that fan ended up with a reserved seat in the other, warmer section of the eternal baseball diamond, which […]
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Quick Hands
This past Sunday was “Christ the King Sunday,” bringing to mind, as it usually does, a church from my growing up years called, “Christ the King.” It was located in a rough area of San Diego, and that was before city planners and highway builders bifurcated it, not too unlike what Highway 59 did to […]
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“Lettuce Pray”
Much of what I learned about worship services I owe to my older brothers. In my childhood when I complained, “I never know what to say,” they took an interest in my plight. “For the prayers, just say this: ‘lettuce pray’,” instructed the one. “And when they tell you to stand up, shake hands and […]
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Depth of Mercy 