My wife and I “enjoy” a tradition begun about 13 years ago—we go on a bike ride, the length of which is one mile for every year we’ve been married. Now you know why I put “enjoy” in quotation marks! If there’s a sliding scale from “enjoy” to “endure,” we’re…
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…
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,…
For the most part, traveling east from Hoover Dam at the Arizona/Nevada border to Phoenix along US 93 doesn’t really rank as particularly “pretty.” To be sure, some scenic views catch your attention. There’s an overlook or two worth stopping to take in the vista. But brown gets a bit…
At long last, Spring has sprung, not only on the calendar, but in our western Illinois weather as well. What better way to celebrate the vernal equinox than get outside on a bright sunny day with temps in the mid-50s? Since Saturday afternoon was free and the rest of the…
The Strawbridge family stumbled into my life on YouTube a couple weeks ago. I was watching a video on someone’s hike—can’t even remember who or where they were hiking. If you ever watch YouTube stuff, you know that at the end of each video, suggestions appear for your next viewing….
“I can’t breathe!” We’ve heard it countless times in the past few months, and probably have become a bit weary of hearing it. Of course, the genesis of that lament comes from the back seat of a police car in Minneapolis. But that’s a discussion for another day. Maybe. Well,…
