WEEKLY DEVOS

I’ve enjoyed our white winter. I prefer white and frozen over brown and muddy… but then as Marilyn likes to remind me, “You don’t have to work outside!” During the warm, green months, the two of us enjoy Ohio’s Amish Country. The Amish lifestyle, viewed at the speed...

My new buddy Jim invited me to his garage to take a peek at his newly rebuilt racecar. We swapped a few racing stories then headed for the house to get a cold drink. Stepping out of the detached garage into the heat of a late summer’s day, I was affectionately greeted...

Rummaging through old black and white photos during a family gathering, I came across a picture of a tall, lanky, broad-shouldered young man, lean and bronzed by the sun. I was particularly struck by the familiar eyes of the youthful farmer looking back at me. The man...

This country is doggone crazy. Statistics show we love our dogs, and I’m no exception. My favorite bumper sticker reads, “I wish I was half the man my dog thinks I am!” Like most dog people, I have a favorite breed: I’m a sucker for a Boston Terrier. From my earliest...

Donnie, upset that his mother wouldn’t grant him yet another cookie, did the only thing a preschooler could do: he ran away from home. Well, actually, as he later confided to me, “I never ran…I only meandered.” Donnie’s high IQ demonstrated itself even as a boy. In...

On a cold winter’s day in January of my fourteenth year, everyone in the family had gone shopping, leaving my younger brother, Steve, and I home alone. The bright sun ricocheted off the highly polished luster of my brother Tom’s silver Chevrolet Corvair as it rested...