MY KILLER WIFE
Today is my 45th wedding anniversary. Paula’s too. It takes two.
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Selected Essays from Let Love Arise
This Little Light of Mine
May 22, 2019
June 2019 (2 years after retirement) Lately, I’ve been thinking about writing. About missing it, actually. For 40 years before I retired, I wrote a sermon nearly every week and an essay every three months for the Good News Paper. That’s 2,000 sermons and more than 100 essays. People listened to what I said. People […]
Reefer Madness
May 27, 2015
The three most popular nonprescription drugs are alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana. Each is harmful to the body and each creates social problems. Of the three, alcohol and tobacco are proven killers. Of those two, tobacco kills only its user (although secondhand smoke is no minor health hazard to others).
Tobacco does not fuel violence toward others.
Nor does pot.
Only alcohol does.
Jesus Bugs Me
December 1, 2013
Have you seen that bedraggled man outside of town with the sign: “HELP ME”? I don’t know about you, but that guy bugs me!
That guy bugs me, and Jesus bugs me, too. Jesus bugs me, this I know… (Could be a new song there!)
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