DO NOT FRET (DO GOOD)
How can we not fret?! These are scary and troublesome times.
Randall "Randy" Tremba was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. He took a bachelor of arts in philosophy at Wheaton College, Illinois (1969), a master’s of divinity at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena,California (1973), and a doctor of ministry at Princeton Seminary (1992). He was installed as minister of the Shepherdstown (WV) Presbyterian Church in July 1976. Forty-one years later he retired. In between, he married Paula, became a parent (Jonah, Nathanael, Amanda) and a grandfather, founded the Rumsey Radio Hour (1990), and co-founded the Shepherdstown Good News Paper with Ed Zahniser (May 1979).
How can we not fret?! These are scary and troublesome times.
I recently found out something about Ed Sullivan I didn’t know.
It was a bad week for Trump. A good week for Jesus.
First they came for undocumented criminals. Then they came for undocumented field workers. Then they came for foreign students.
Dung beetles eat four times their weight every day. They leave no poop behind.
How did the rose ever open its heart and give this world all of its beauty?
Last Sunday one of my readers “unsubscribed.” I was shocked when I found out why.
Last Sunday Paula and I crossed the Potomac River to check out the Smoketown Brewery in Brunswick, Maryland
I ran into an old friend I haven’t seen for serveral years and for whom time has been unkind. I silently gasp.
The Devil dropped by for a visit. Where’ve you been? I asked. Oh, the usual places, he replied.
Thanks to Old Scratch I’ll be posting a reflection on something I find remarkable in and around our world most every Sunday morning.
Read more about the devil’s role in my life in “This Little Light of Mine” under Let Love Arise in the menu bar.

I reached a personal milestone yesterday. Alas, there were no fireworks and no parades.

Soccer is a beautiful game, my sons told me years ago. I couldn’t see what they saw, but I’m beginning to.

I'm a soccer fan but not a fanatic. Alas, the game releases the inner barbarian.

Today is my birthday. I was born in 1947. Let's hear if for the boomers!
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