Roscoe is looking a little bedraggled these windy Spring days. He’s got mud on his shoulder. He’s got mud on his ankles. He’s got mud on one of his ears, […]
Stories
Down By the Riverside: Pickles
I eat pickles when I can’t think of words to write. Sometimes, I sit down for an evening and know what I want to say. I can look back over […]
Faith in Focus: Proverb 27:8
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home. Photograph by Jeff Jenkins www.Jenkins100.com
Down By the Riverside: Home
It’s a picture of a bare corner in my dining room. Until this morning, this corner was home to our Christmas tree. We put it up last year, the day […]
Down By The Riverside: Simple
Slowly but surely, I’m getting my house all decked out for Christmas. My tree has been up since the day after Thanksgiving. Alexa knows exactly what carols to play to […]
Faith in Focus: Psalm 112:4-5
Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous. Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct […]
Faith in Focus: Psalm 36:5-7
Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, Your justice like the great deep. You, Lord, preserve both people […]
Down By the Riverside: What I Know
Some days feel heavier than other days. Hours are long, conversations sober, sometimes, tears. Life here is like that sometimes. And I don’t know why. I don’t know why terrible […]
‘Quiet, Delicate Snowflakes’ Can Even Make a Difference
Journeying With Jesus, and Jon (the Methodist) By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John 13:35 Though many 21st-century Christians […]