Apr 24, 2016 | Blog Post, Weekly Devo
Years ago, before whiteboards and digital screens, Sunday school teachers used a labor intensive visual aid called – The Flannel Graph. Flannel graph is little more than a large piece of plywood or hardboard covered in a pastel colored flannel cloth. Cut...
Apr 17, 2016 | Blog Post, Weekly Devo
This week I was honored by an unexpected celebrity visitor to our church. I learned she had stopped with her driver the previous week and did a walk-through, but unfortunately I had already left for the day and just missed seeing her. So I was doubly pleased when she...
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Apr 10, 2016 | Blog Post, Weekly Devo
I’ve discovered I can best maintain my focus while writing in a public place. For the most part, everyone minds their own business and I’m able to lock in on the task at hand. I prefer casual shops—you know, the ones with overstuffed chairs squirreled away in little...
Apr 3, 2016 | Blog Post, Weekly Devo
I’ve been involved in restoring old cars most of my life. I even managed to make a living at it for a couple decades. Never made a dime but I had a great time! Hey, maybe I should have that engraved on my tombstone—‘He never made a dime but he had a great time’. I’d...
Mar 27, 2016 | Blog Post, Weekly Devo
It was late March 1961 and the promise of spring seemed as fleeting as the wintry wind that whipped over our hilltop home near Sugar Grove. Earlier that morning, on my way out the door to catch the bus, I stopped and carefully checked the Deeds Dairy calendar...
Mar 20, 2016 | Blog Post, Weekly Devo
Earlier this week as I searched for a parking spot at one of Lancaster’s DIY stores, I stopped to allow two pedestrians to cross in front of me on their way into the store. I couldn’t help but notice how nicely dressed they were. My grandma would say they were “all...
Mar 13, 2016 | Blog Post, Weekly Devo
OK, I admit it—I am unabashedly a Downton Abbey fan and like DA fans all over the world, I am in mourning following the final installment which aired this past week. If you viewed any portion of the six-season series and decided it wasn’t your cup of tea,...
Feb 28, 2016 | Blog Post, Good News, Weekly Devo
Continuing our quest to avoid the cold of Ohio’s February, Marilyn and I find ourselves in on our own version of Where’s Waldo. Unhooking our camper in central Florida during one of the “best weather weeks ever” according to the locals, we compulsively decided...
Feb 14, 2016 | Blog Post, Weekly Devo
Last week I pulled back the curtain of our family history to reveal a tiny table and chairs purchased for our toddling sons in the 1970’s. If you read that column you know that five years ago, Marilyn and I left a diminutive dinette behind for the youngsters of...
