The words, repentance and religion, have been turning over in my mind this week, since our Bible study, Bible Workbench, focused on a reading from Isaiah 1. He called the Israelites, and now us, to change our ways. What were they talking about? Repent means to deeply regret what we’ve done, but it does not […]
Just when I think I’ve seen every different cardinal possible another appears. This one is probably a female, but her coloring is mostly grey, not the variations on a brown theme that I am used to seeing. Grey head, grey body with a fair dusting of red along the lower wings and tail feathers. She […]
As my friend’s condition deteriorates, I am more and more at a loss for what to do or say when I am with her. She is now wheel-chair bound and unable to speak except to repeat an occasional word that someone else has just uttered. At the age of 68 she has a frontal lobe […]
I was driving to South Park Mall one day this week to run a quick errand, when I realized that the driver in front of me was not using his/her turn signal. As I followed the car I was wishing that he/she (couldn’t tell which) would let me know what was going to happen, so […]
I am sitting on a conveyor belt riding through an assembly-line type of arrangement, but at each station I pass there is a devil with a pitchfork trying to poke me. I have passed five or six stations when this part of the meditation ends. I feel ashamed and embarrassed. This fragment of a long-ago […]
Curious. That’s what I think about the pair of red birds who have visited my feeder for the past three weeks. They definitely resemble cardinals, but they seem to be a little bigger, fatter and scruffier than the cardinals I see and recognize. Both have all-black heads without the defined crest of the cardinal. The […]
Summer came early in Charlotte this year; well before the solstice the heat soared into the 90’s with humidity to match. Now we’ve endured a two-week long heat wave with no relief, not even from the frequent thunder showers that were predicted in the area, but failed to materialize. As each day heats up, the […]
I sit with a cup of coffee on my deck and watch life happen in my yard. I take a slow walk around my neighborhood, way below the pace of exercise, in order to observe what is there or happening in the present time. I just sit and contemplate without objective. These are the actions […]
I just received a call from a web host who was trolling for more business among those who may be dissatisfied with their current provider. I get telephone calls looking for the person who has diabetes in my household(noone). I get calls from the police or fireman’s association asking me to buy tickets to their […]
Listen to what a woman in her late thirties or early forties reported to me last week: she has two kids, one in middle school and one a rising high school student, and all their activities; she works two part-time jobs that together are more than one full-time one; and she is married with a […]