Susan's Pendulum

Thesis: No one can be happy and contented in his life's work unless he is doing it to serve someone else (and not himself). No matte...

"Your neighbor is the man who needs you." Wow. That's a quote from Elbert Green Hubbard , a man who differed from me philos...

Conversation recently among a group of [unchurched] 20-somethings: "I don't think I'd ever want a family.  It would be fun to ...

Isn't it cool?  In Luke's version of the Transfiguration (chapter 9) , Jesus is talking with Moses and Elijah about "His dece...

I knew God changed Abram's name to Abraham. I knew God instituted the sacrament of circumcision for His people.  (In the new testament...

It takes so much energy to tend to an illness or a wound.  When I burned my arm recently, it took longer to get dressed in the morning becau...

... Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood ...  (Romans 3) So, that "propitiation" is another word for ...

Luke 15: a lost sheep, a lost coin, a lost son. Did you ever wonder why the middle story is about a woman who lost something?  (Well, bes...

On NPR today, the reporter was interviewing someone who does fact-checking.  The topic?  Obamacare.  The distress?  People's health plan...

Pictures taken by our friend Rachel .  (By the way, if anybody around here needs high school graduation pictures, Rachel is superb...

Our reverse-osmosis filter had not been working.  For eight weeks, I was buying jugs of water every time I had reason to be in town.  The ...

Turning into this driveway. Sometimes after work, I head to church instead of heading home.  Maybe there's class.  Maybe there's...

While doing kitchen work today, I was listening to Issues Etc on the topic of infant communion.  The guest said some good stuff.  But one b...

How do you know if you're too old? If you're old enough to buy your own candy (that is, if you could be babysitting, shoveling sno...

Reading to children. Picture books. Chapter books. Old books.  Sometimes new books too. There's something marvelous about readin...

My mother-in-law's measuring cups. Reason #1: For 30+ years, I only had one set.  Boy, it's nice to have a spare so that cups do...

I keep running across these recipes that say, "Pat the chicken dry with paper towels," and then the instructions go on to tell abo...

Pretty dishes. Not only are they cheery, but they drip-dry super-fast in the dish-drainer.  I can let them air-dry and put them away 30-...

After the Flood, God promised that He would never again destroy the earth with water (Genesis 9) .  Interestingly, the promise was not made ...

Going out for a beer after choir.  Now and then, several of us go to a nearby bar/restaurant and talk and laugh.  Last night, instead of...