Have you noticed how easy it is to slip into bad habits? Look around the next time you go out to eat. Notice how many people mindlessly scroll through the phone while waiting for their order to arrive. It’s so much easier to pull out the phone and swipe and…
After yesterday’s disappointment—following the wrong trail, losing ground and precious time—we left the Congdon shelter hopeful that we could make up for it all on our third day on the Long Trail. For the second day in a row, the sun brightened our mood and the forecast looked promising. We…
Aside from a swollen left hand, Day 2 dawned with an air of hopefulness. My sister and I were about 10 miles into our planned 273-mile adventure on Vermont’s Long Trail—the footpath in the wilderness. The previous two Pastor’s Page installments cover the months of preparation up to the actual…
365 miles in 12 months. On foot. On a trail of some kind (not neighborhood sidewalks or the mall). “The Hiker’s 365,” it’s called, and was the first My Adventure Challenge we signed up for. Initially, we launched this challenge in November 2021 with the goal of completing it one…
“Spite. It’s all because of spite,” he said. “He” is the trainer hired to try instilling some discipline in our German Shepherd, Timber. [In case you missed it, I wrote about some of the discipline problems in the previous post.] The trainer explained that German Shepherds resent being left alone,…
I rarely get to do spontaneous, early-in-the-week alterations to my routine. My to-do lists for the different days of the week are fairly uniform—at least the basics. I record the Morning Light broadcasts for the following week on Monday mornings. Then I’ll do some preliminary study for the week’s preaching/teaching…
“The bigger the burger, the better the burger! The burgers are bigger at Burger King!” What could possibly be better than a Whopper of a burger? Bigger is better, after all. Right? Some might argue that a bag full of White Castles is better. I wouldn’t, but someone might. Some…
One year ends, another begins. Time marches on. How can we come to the annual calendar replacement without thinking about time? Perhaps about what we do with it? Generally, we tend to think about time in a couple of different ways. Naturally, time involves the sequential passing of seconds, minutes,…
I served for two years on the staff of a church that held an annual “Stewardship Month” in February. Many churches do such a thing, I know. Some will call the emphasis by different names—“Capital Campaign”—for example. But the emphasis is pretty much the same. Money. Your “Treasure.” Typically, in…
It all started, as I recall, with something like the ol’ cup-of-water-above-the-door prank. For the unenlightened, take a cup of water and rest it on top of a slightly ajar door, then when the next person enters, the cup tips toward the entering party, dousing them with 8 ounces of…
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