Category: Observations

My Old Excuses For Not Attending Church (Part 3)

After Liz’s passing, immediately followed by my anger, cursing, and temper tantrums directed towards God, something dawned on me (I’m a bit slow). Hey, if I’m angry and blaming God for Liz’s death, that means I obviously believe in Him. It’s hard to hate…

My Old Excuses For Not Attending Church (Part 2)

My excuse list grew longer and stronger when My wife Liz passed. There could be no God that would take her instead of me. Certainly no God that I wanted to worship. She was the follower and worshipper of God, not me. My passive…

My Old Excuses For Not Attending Church

Part One: The Church is filled with hypocrites. They go to church on Sunday; sing some hymns, drop some cash in the collection plate, pretend to listen to a sermon, and occasionally belt out an AMEN! Then, they go about their way the rest…

Make an Impression, Even If It’s Disgust

The title of this article “Make an Impression, Even If It’s Disgust” came to me while participating in a Bible themed race called “Amazing Grace”. While participating in these races or just for exercise, I always wear my favorite hat which reads “walking with…

What The Heck Is a Jesus Freak?

Jesus Freak

Whenever I heard the term “Jesus Freak” it conjured up visions of someone dressed in robes passing out flyers at the airport or someone dragging a cross down the road. In the sixties there were groups or communes of young people that sang and…

The Unhappy Christian

Stern preacher

You may know me. You certainly know where to find me. I am in my allotted space on the pew every time the church doors are open. I can spout an AMEN! with the best of em’ during any sermon and will construct a…

A Picture Of Me Without You

Liz’s birthday is coming up this month. She would have been 67 and I have now spent 33 months without her. I have involved myself in many activities, trying to fill a void that cannot be filled. My life goes on without her even…

My Daddy The Victor

I finally called you daddy because you repeated that word a thousand times while holding me close, our eyes deadlocked. It’s important for us fathers to coerce their baby into speaking daddy before they speak mommy as the first spoken word; the reasons are…

Running For My Life

I’m old, or at least my body is old. It just had it’s 68th birthday a few days ago. Most people will say, “hey that’s not old”. Half the people who say this are young, trying to be nice, and are secretly thinking OMG…

Mothers

Elizabeth Once, long ago I failed to recognize Elizabeth (Liz), my wife of 48 years on Mothers Day. Trying to justify my actions, or in this case my inaction I made the mistake of informing her that she was “not my mother.” (Yes, I…