Kind’a Like Death

Have you ever felt like nothing in your life meant anything; that things have all of a sudden halted as far as value is concerned? I am feeling somewhat like this at present. Oh, I don’t think I am depressed or anything like that. I just feel like nothing worthwhile is occurring in my life. I’ve gone through such times in the past, and I understand that these feelings and outlooks are temporary, but it really feels like the world is passing me by as I go through this wilderness feeling, where there is simply no distinct path to follow.

Fellowship with Jesus

How are friendships built? Wouldn’t you say that relationships grow with communication? If we are in communication with people we get to know them and they are able to come to know us. That is just the way it works. Sometimes letters is all we have, if we’ve moved away, but those letters become treasures if the people we are communicating with are our friends or loved ones. We express a common desire to live out our lives together, even if it must be at a distance.

Happiness Is…

Comedians seem to have a lot of fun with this line: “Happiness is…”, but usually what is funny in their humorous story is not really what brings happiness to everyone. For example, Johnny Carson once quipped: “Happiness is your dentist telling you this won’t hurt and then having him get his hand caught in the drill!” While this may be good for a laugh, it doesn’t really tell us what brings happiness. Does it?

Life in the Egg-timer

One of the most fascinating things for me as a child was watching the sands in a 3 min. egg-timer pass from one globe to another. I know—I should get a life, right? But, as a child, it was the little things that excited my curiosity—worms crawling around without legs, grasshoppers jumping many times their height but landing without getting hurt, God hanging out the star every night in the same place I remembered them, and sands in an egg-timer flowing from one globe to another.

Are We There Yet?

The impatience of the young can be really cute and heart-warming. Looking back, I remember the growing excitement as we followed the Susquehanna River up Route 92 to River Rd. where my uncle owned a cottage along the river. Every year the whole family would get together there and just enjoy being with one another. Of course this included swimming and playing baseball, but as the sun would set behind the tall trees, we would all gather around the outdoor light and talk. Usually us kids would be off by ourselves, but within the limits of the light reaching out to dispel the dark shadowy figures between us and the river.

The Saddest Time of Year

Often Christmas can be a sad time of year, especially for folks who have lost loved ones during this season. Sometimes, it is simply because this is the—first—Christmas since a loved one passed on, that this season is so very sad, spent in reflection of happier moments with those we love. Still others find this time of year sad because of estrangement from our family. Some of us simply feel unloved or worse—irrelevant.

Evidence of Jesus

I like to debate about Jesus on certain discussion forums. A lot of people, who fancy themselves as Biblical critics, like to conclude that there is not much evidence of Jesus’ existence. Whether or not this is true is not the point of this particular blog-post. I just have to wonder, though, if there is no evidence of him, why are so many trying to say so. It seems like they want to deny something that convicts them. Anyway, I have to consider the times in my own life when I either denied the evidence of Jesus existence or found it embarrassing to admit it.