As I write this I am settling in to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving for the umpteenth time. Every year I watch it, I see something I did not see the previous 49 viewings. This year was no exception as I watched this fun, classic cartoon rendition of Thanksgiving with the Peanuts Gang. This year I realized how many MISGIVINGS we can have at THANKSGIVING.
Peppermint Patty, one of Charlie Brown’s friends, had some misgivings about Thanksgiving. Initially, she did not have…
As I write this I am settling in to
watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
for the umpteenth time. Every year I watch it, I see something I did not see the
previous 49 viewings. This year was no exception as I watched this fun, classic
cartoon rendition of Thanksgiving with the Peanuts Gang. This year I realized
how many MISGIVINGS we can have at THANKSGIVING.
Peppermint Patty, one of Charlie Brown’s
friends, had some misgivings about Thanksgiving. Initially, she did not have a
place to go for the holiday, so she invited…
Repetition is a good teacher. Or so they say! And if that is true, God, the Master Teacher, has repeated Himself about something many times over. Do you know what it is?
I thought the most repeated commandment was something like, “love one another”, or “fear not”. I had even heard a sermon recently which claimed there are 365 “fear nots” in the Bible—one for each day of the year! So, I had to check this out and when I did, I found out that, depending on the version…
Christmas already? How can it already be the last weekend before Christmas? Wasn’t it just yesterday we were watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade?
Here in America, the Christmas season is offically “kicked off” by the annual Macy’s parade. For the last 87 years the Emmy award winning tradition (there are Emmys for parades? Who knew?) has been seen by 3.5 million people in New York City and an additional 50 million via satellite and cable television. The floats and bands are always exciting but the part of the parade people anticipate…
A couple of years ago I posted a blog about the word “hitherto”. It’s hard to say how many times that particular (and rather archaic word) has come back to my mind.
This week I’ve been pondering another word. It may or may not be found in Scripture – I didn’t check – but God works according to this word all through His Word. The word? “Meanwhile…”
What brought this word to my mind and heart and then my journal was the culmination of studying Kings and Prophets with a Precepts group…
From time to time I tend to worry about “what if” kinds of things. Do you know what I mean? I’m talking about the kinds of things that didn’t go wrong, but they could have, and what if they did? Cammy will frequently bring it to my attention when I do that and then she will remind me of a short scene in “Parenthood” in hopes that it will be an antidote to my worry.
The scene involves Steve Martin being so high about his son’s little league game,…
