by sworel | Nov 30, 2025 | 2025, Musings
Ever since my Goddaughter did her 8th grade research project on the Titanic, I have been fascinated with accounts of that disaster. I recently read some insights from Michael Trull. He wrote: “On April 15, 1912, at approximately 2:20 A.M. the stern of the White Star...
by sworel | Nov 23, 2025 | 2025, Musings
Can I offer you (and me) some valuable perspective? “In AD 44, King Herod ordered that James the Greater be thrust through with a sword. He was the first of the apostles to be martyred. And so, the blood bath began. Luke was hung by the neck from an olive tree in...
by sworel | Nov 16, 2025 | 2025, Musings
I was sitting in a board meeting the other day and the agenda called for a moment of prayer. One of the board members began his prayer by thanking God for our time to be together. He specifically thanked the Lord for “both chronos and kairos” time. Those two terms...
by sworel | Nov 9, 2025 | 2025, Musings
A few years back, a Civil War soldier’s remains were found at the site of the Battle of Franklin in Tennessee. Although those who reburied him knew neither his name nor even which side he fought on, they honored him with a horse-drawn carriage draped with both...
by sworel | Nov 2, 2025 | 2025, Musings
In 1522, Ignatius of Loyola had his leg shattered by a cannonball and began his pilgrimage towards Jerusalem. He got waylaid along the way and ended up in cave somewhere writing his thoughts on spiritual exercises. One of those exercises has come to be called “The...
by sworel | Oct 26, 2025 | 2025, Musings
For some parents, it is just too much trouble to properly discipline their children. Cue the video of the parents ignoring their kids in the grocery store as they pull things off the shelf and drop uneaten cookies all over the floor for someone else to clean up. For...
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