My wife is an amazing woman in so many regards. She is most comfortable, though, in a classy dress and 6-inch heels, in an office, working with a spreadsheet. She has been my secretary since shortly after we started the church in 1997, and her office, complete with three monitors, two computers, copier, Cricut machine, laminator and Keurig, has her personality indelibly stamped on it.
Among all the labors of mankind, nothing seems to say, "I am no longer a spring chicken," quite like that of heading to the lawyer's office to update one's last will and testament.
There is, in almost any neighborhood, one house that all of the kids gather at to hang out and play.
In Philippians 2:1-4 we read, "If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others."
As I survey the granite battlefield on top of my black walnut desk, the carnage is, to be blunt, breathtaking.
To begin with, I understand that I am assuredly going to be the recipient of lighthearted yet sarcastic comments about me not understanding that I am not a kid anymore.
To the best of my recollection, in all of my 51 years of life thus far, the only places I have ever actually been kicked out of are a funeral and a Bible college cafeteria.
If records from the world in general and America in particular survive a few more generations, I rather suspect that one item of interest will generate a lot of buzz amongst those future historians:
As a rule, I tend to avoid using columns or sermons to deal with political matters unless those matters are pressing, egregious and have crossed very clear lines of truth.
Since the time that our children were very little, our family has always gathered together at night time before bed to pray together.
