The call came just as I was ready to start my class one night. My question upon hearing the subject matter was typically male and blatantly insensitive: "Why are you calling me just before Bible Study to tell me this?"… Continue reading

“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son …” – Galatians 4:4a It may be August, but today’s reading takes us back to a Christmas decades ago. The sky was blue. The Honolulu Star… Continue reading

Love is tough.Tough love is tougher.Hate is corrosive.One kills.The other makes us stronger.Choose love and stand tough. Continue reading

Love is tough.Tough love is tougher.Hate is corrosive.One kills.The other makes us stronger.Choose love and stand tough. Continue reading

Mr. Bowden was our church organist in Fremont in the 80s. He played the organ for us into his nineties and died with an alert mind and a bellowing voice. He practiced his organ just outside the door to my… Continue reading

  Splendid     Spacious         Expanse, Spreading forth to the west,     The east,         The north,             The south, Vertical and horizontal             Space, Waves of     Wandering         Wonder. This is… Continue reading

Jesus asked the right question, "Do you want to be healed?" The man heard it through his own filters and thought his answer was contingent on his preconceptions of getting in the water. That was not the case. Right question,… Continue reading

  Sometimes, you just have to bite the bullet and get it done. According to our friends at Wikipedia, "To "bite the bullet" is to endure a painful or otherwise unpleasant situation that is seen as unavoidable.[1] The phrase was first… Continue reading

  “ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever beleiveth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” – John 3:16   The world is a bright and vibrant living space… Continue reading