Musings

By Sean Dietrich It’s a few minutes until Thanksgiving. I thought I’d stay up and watch the clock change. I’m sipping tea, listening to gentle music playing in the background. I think it’s Bing Crosby, or maybe Nat King Cole. The volume is too low to tell. Either way, it sounds...

By Kirk MCCarley A few days ago, I shared a drink and some sandwiches with a couple of work mates at an airport eatery, killing time before our respective flights back home departed.  As guys are often wont to do, our conversation drifted into a Seinfeldian discussion of observations and...

By Victoria Ostrosky When she heard the authoritative knock on her front door, she quickly ran to her baby brother and grabbed his hand.  Her eyes were great pools of fear and, with a trembling voice, she begged to not be separated from her little brother.  Their home, such as...

By Rick Moore, During the first year of college, I was elected freshman class president. Two days before the first monthly meeting that I was to preside over, a tornado ripped through the city destroying dozens of homes. I proposed we do our part and help those who were less...

By Sean Dietrich This is not my story. It was told to me. In fact, I’m hearing it for the first time, just like you are. The year was 1982. The old man climbed out of a rust-red Ford. He was ancient. He walked with a shuffle as he hobbled into...

By Pastor David Holland “So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.” Luke 15:19-20 (NIV) As a little...

By Rick Moore, When I was about five years old, my family checked into a hotel room while on a vacation. The sliding glass door to our room was adjacent to the swimming pool. My two older brothers and I decided to race to see who could be the first...

By Victoria Ostrosky We are an impatient people.  We want everything now.  Fast food, lightning-fast internet speed, faster computer processors.  Waiting isn’t on our list of things we want to do anymore.  We want what we want when we want it. But God, as we know full well, has no problem...

By Kirk McCarley, My son, Kyle, is a fan of Steve Harvey on the Family Feud.  He posed the question to me recently of, “if I were to be selected to appear on the show, who would be the four other family members that I would select to join me?” ...

By Sean Dietrich These aren’t my stories, but I’m going to tell them. Let’s call her Dana. Dana was going for a walk near her home. It was a dirt road. Her high-school reunion was coming up, she was getting into shape. A truck pulled beside her. He slowed down. He rolled...