WEEKLY DEVOS

I upholstered collector cars before I became a minister. As a car guy, I was fortunate to turn my hobby into a vocation. It was tedious and demanding, but I loved working on show-quality, classic automobiles. I would design upholstery from British leathers and shape...

Many people record their favorite TV shows on a DVR and take great delight in fast-forwarding through the commercials.  Technology is a wonderful thing!  Strange as it may seem, I like TV commercials… well most of them. Some are just plain obnoxious, relying on the...

I was never a good fighter. I still remember the first time I got slugged. I was in the second grade, innocently talking with one the prettiest girls on the playground, who was, as it turned out, already engaged to a much older man in the third grade. Their prenuptial...

Rural Fairfield County during the 1950’s was an innocent time, a time of moral insulation. We were a church going family—simple farm folks, you might say—who were strangely proud of our humility. When Dad wasn’t delivering milk door to door for Deed’s Dairy, he worked...

The two wonderful people I live with—my wife and her father—are both most comfortable with a fixed schedule… a predetermined routine. They keep journals and calendars at their finger tips and operate according to the plans they carefully made days, even weeks, in...

I was hyperactive before “hyper” was a word. While this is slowly subsiding with age, I also have an attention deficit disorder. When others speak with me, I have to focus carefully because I am so easily distracted; by anything and everything. I feel like a puppy who...