A Gift that Meets Our Need Is The Very Best

  “Oh. It’s only clothes. “I had an idea when I was younger that all Christmas presents should be something you don’t need. I think others helped me in forming this idea.
Gradually my idea of the perfect present has changed.
Others helped me change my ideal.
It occurred to me last week that Jesus was the perfect [...]

Summer Calls and Kids Help It

  Summer is at midpoint and I notice myself and people around me alternating between a panic and plodding moes. We like a collective ant colony movealong the path of seasonal tasks and pleasure. Produce and blossoms come in waves and I pick and pack away. The waves and the summer sun beckon and I [...]

Guilty till Proven Innocent Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt

  In the life of a young couple I know the traditional idea of American law has been turned on it’s head. Not innocent until proven guilty beyond a shadow of doubt but the reverse has been the treatment they have received.
  It is horrifying to sit in court and hear the evaluation of them [...]

Father,Daddy,Papa,Dad,Pop Whatever You Call Him Treat Him

  Father’s Day approaches and men and women the world over are wondering what to do about it?
  Men don’t know what they want.
  Women respond by trying to give them what they want them to want or what they think they might want.
  Why don’t we just ask them what would be fun for [...]