“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…
Three months ago, we planned for—and highly anticipated—a week of camping and hiking in Minnesota. The trip was inspired by an episode from a travel vlog, Adventures of A&K. I reserved a site at the Burlington Bay campground in Two Harbors, northeast of Duluth, right on Lake Superior. That was…
Should you find yourself at the visitor’s center in Amicalola Falls State Park in Dawsonville, Georgia, it may seem quite odd that just outside the building hangs a scale from one of the support beams. Then again, if you’re at that particular park, you would likely be aware that it’s…
Last Saturday, the sun gleamed brightly off the snow, beckoning me to step outside for a brief hike. At the same time, the wind chimes hanging on the back patio played furiously in the blustering wind. To go, or not to go. That was the question. I needed the exercise,…
Living a little under a mile from the church where I serve as pastor, I often walk to the office in the morning to get some exercise. I’ve discovered that listening to an audiobook along the way makes the walk shorter and less routine. There are, after all, only so…
Didn’t seem like a very good day for it last Saturday—cold, cloudy, an icy mist in the forecast—but I felt the need to get some exercise, so suggested to my bride that we go for a walk. We headed to one of our favorite local spots, a multi-use trail that…
I don’t like being cold. Due to the nature of my work, I spend a good bit of time at a desk: reading, studying, administrative stuff. This time of year, it doesn’t seem to matter what I do, my feet and hands are often cold. And I don’t like it….
