Happy Thanksgiving Day! Can we talk briefly? Will you think with me? On Thanksgiving, we are often thankful for those things that separate us from others — things that identify us as special or extra blessed in comparison to the rest of humanity. When we are thankful for health, freedom, our nation, or abundant physical …
Monthly Archives: November 2024
Sunday: Thankful For–Thankful Anyway
Life is difficult. Very few people would claim that life is without difficulties and challenges, disappointments and regrets. We would like to change some things about the past. We wish there were “do overs.” Things have not come out as we planned, hoped, dreamed. People, even in our own family and among those closest to …
Birthday!
Thank you! Many of you (especially the diligent social networkers) have noticed the passing of another year in my life. Birthday #76. I begin my 77th journey around the sun. I especially liked the greeting: Happy “Bob” Day. I love little sayings and quotations. They give flavor and spice to life. They provide instant orientation …
Word for Today: “Surrender” to what counts
You will never be worth much to God in your Christian life until you learn to surrender to what counts. The spiritual disciplines must include surrender. In fact, surrender may be first, the foundation of every other discipline. Surrender is the ultimate expression of thinking like Jesus (Philippians 2:5). Until we learn the lesson of …
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