The secret to a great marriage
Tweet This week the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and Yours Truly, celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. This week as I pondered our life together it occurred to me, I might be taking some things for granted. Doing this, especially when it involves another person, is dangerous. I decided to take a little stock of [...]
Read More →The absurdity of to pray or not to pray
Tweet Occasionally, I hear about somebody objecting to prayer. Usually, it is somebody who has no idea what he or she is talking about. It must be a slow news day when the media highlights this as one of their news stories. I guess nothing else is going on in the world demanding our attention. [...]
Read More →Please, don’t call me ‘Sweetie’
Tweet The past several weeks, I have been trying to keep my curmudgeon levels to a minimum. It has been a struggle but I am happy to report I have been making fantastic progress. That is until the other day. The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and our daughters had planned to spend the day [...]
Read More →Okay, enough with the cold, already
Tweet Some things in life are so enjoyable you hope they linger forever. Other things, you hope disappear faster than they came, like relatives during the holidays. Why is it they come in faster than they go out? Don’t get me wrong. I love my relatives. But I love them more from a distance, which [...]
Read More →A new look at the old year
Tweet From a practical standpoint, and if I am anything I am practical, well, practically, this year has gone by rather quickly. The fact I have survived this past year has to count for something. I was musing on this with the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage just the other day. I was feeling rather [...]
Read More →Thanksgiving quandary: roast turkey or lame duck
Tweet My father used to tell me anything worth doing was worth doing right the first time. If you have time to do it the second time, you have time to do it right the first time. As fathers go, he was right. It seems most people have not learned this lesson, least of all [...]
Read More →Loco pastor burns his hand in loud protest
Tweet Every now and then, a thought enters my mind. Once inside my mind, it endures a lonely existence and rattles around long enough to morph into something quite different when it comes out than what went in. I am not quite sure when this thought entered my mind, but when it came out of [...]
Read More →Has anyone seen my Castle lately?
Tweet By Rev. James L. Snyder As of late, I have been fighting an insufferable barrage of intruders into that area commonly referred to as, “My Castle.” Normally I’m not a pessimist, but I have a feeling I am losing this battle. I’m the kind of person that tries to get along with everybody but [...]
Read More →If the whole world were an apple fritter, who’d need heaven?
Tweet When a person has reached the ripe old age I have reached there are precious few pleasures left. Actually, there are many pleasures left but no energy to pursue them and if I happen to catch a pleasure, I can’t remember what in the world I’m supposed to do with it. One pleasure has [...]
Read More →As summers go, this one is going
Tweet During my high school career I was no thespian, however, I could act the fool when called upon. My friend was the thespian and starred in our senior high school play, “Finian’s Rainbow.” One of the musical numbers was, “When I’m not near the girl I love, I love the girl I’m near.” I [...]
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