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The cold weather kept several home from Sunday School but those of us attending shared some great “church” stories . . .
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My wife and I recently watched a documentary about the British royal family in the years just before World War II. The Duke of Windsor had been made King but then abdicated his throne because he wanted to marry an American divorcee named Wallis Simpson. His younger brother, Bertie, was then crowned King George and shortly thereafter Britain was plunged into war with Nazi Germany.
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Yes, there are people who live on this earth who see to it. One such individual was a “faithful” customer of mine way back in the 1970s. He was a chronic complainer who was forever being shorted on his medicine, by me. The city overcharged him on his water and the butcher over at Allen Food Center always weighed his meat orders heavy. He had a rough life. He had one prescription for 30 pills. Cheap. So cheap that I only charged him a buck a month for his 30 pills. But of course, he said I always cheated him anyway so I just made it a point to give him an extra pill or two. This gift was never acknowledged.
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One of my grandsons got an archery set for Christmas and loves it. Around the same time my friend Kevin fisher shared the following story . . .
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I gotta admit, I don’t read the professional journal Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. Frankly, all three of those words kinda intimidate me. But a recent research paper released in that publication caught my eye with its daunting title:
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Andy is a typical early riser. Meaning he is usually up, dressed and sitting at the desk in his office by around seven every morning. Which causes him to see the sun began to filter cautiously thru the blinds and get stronger as morning passes. One such morning, he glanced at the window and thought, “Huh, sure seems awfully hazy and cloudy to be the gorgeous day the weatherman predicted. Hopefully, maybe those clouds will get burned off by the sun, ‘cause we sure need it today.” An hour later, as he was getting ready to leave the house, he looked out again and noticed that the weather outside still had a distinct haze. Then it dawned on his early morning brain. “That’s not clouds or fog, it’s plastic sheeting, dummy!”
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*God is like Bayer Aspirin. He works miracles.
Read moreIt’s hard to reimagine just how important this date is to kids anymore. But it is. Back when I was a kid, our family we would have a “tree” up many days before Christmas Eve and gradually the pool of presents would grow under it. What was in these presents? There was the mystery. And indeed, what might was the burning question. Speculation and wonder ruled the moments, and it was indeed an exciting time for kids. Both for the giver and the receiver.
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