Monday Musings
2008 – 2021
A Commentary on Life
Every Monday, I write a “musing.” It is a brief commentary on life seen through the lens of the scriptures. The topics and observations reflect my wide area of interests. I might comment on sports or an historical event. I might reflect on parenting skills or muse about a biography I read. The themes will range from the mundane to the theologically important.
You can browse my most recent posts below or select a year from the archives at right.
This is My Story
One of my favorite old hymns is Fannie Crosby’s “Blessed Assurance.” The first verse says, “Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine. Oh what a foretaste of glory divine. Heir of salvation, purchase of God, born of His spirit, washed in His blood.” And the...
Encouragement vs. Praise
One of our elementary boys football teams lost every game this year. They were on the young side, had no experience and tended to enjoy each other’s company much more than learning football fundamentals. After the last game, one of the boys gave...
Say Something Nice…
We are all celebrating Thanksgiving this week. The holiday comes with incredible food, a break from work, some wonderful football games and of course the onslaught of relatives! But just the thought of Aunt Suzie and Uncle Fred verbally “mixing it...
Good Manners
If you look up “chivalry” in the dictionary, you will find definitions that highlight the qualities idealized by knighthood. You will see things listed like bravery, courtesy, honor and gallantry. And boy does our society need more of all that! A...
Before I Die…
Our society has ongoing dialogs about death and dying. Earlier this year there was a flurry of articles about the ways and means that various states execute prisoners on death row. Another article highlighted the changing dress code associated with...
Pearly Gates
It was well past 3:00 am the other morning when my body finally allowed me to trudge off to sleep. I had been having another “tete-a-tete” with some real pain, the kind that hurts. “It just isn’t fair” slides so easily off my tongue. This mess has...
Be Thou My Vision
My first encounter with a “heads up display” happened in an airplane simulator. A friend and I used to go ”fly” navy jets for fun. In order to win the aerial battle, you had to master the heads up display. And so I have been watching with some...
Christian Liberty – It’s the Pits!
We’d been sitting in a restaurant for 2 or 3 hours, just catching up on the highs and lows in each other’s lives, when all of a sudden, my single and suffering friend blurted out at me, “This business of Christian liberty is the pits!” Apparently,...
It Depends…
A while back, I visited a site that offered creative thinking puzzles. One of them was called “The Drop the Block Problem.” It showed a stick figured man holding a block of wood and it asked the question, “What will happen to the piece of wood when...
Passing Along a Word from Our Father
A few years ago during the height of the war in Afghanistan, a cool thing happened in the Atlanta airport. As a group of young soldiers were making their way through the terminal in their camouflaged uniforms, a little girl, maybe 6 or 7 years old...
Easy Isn’t Always Better
A recent FAA study found that pilots are losing their “edge.” Their flying skills are being eroded because they are “under-challenged.” It seems that modern planes are now equipped in such a way that they literally almost fly themselves. Pilots are...
Over Protecting Our Kids
Not long ago I read an article in an English online paper about a Polish priest who was warning parents to be on their guard against Lego toys. He was warning them that those “plastic bricks are a tool of Satan and can destroy children’s souls.”...
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