My dermatologist last Thursday asked me what we had planned for the weekend. I enthusiastically told her we were going to Chicago to see John Williams conduct the Chicago Symphony at Orchestra Hall. Her response was polite but not affirming for a person who I have usually found to be very warm. So I followed…
I once met Billy Graham. That’s probably not a unique statement. With all of the crusades or revivals he held in his lifetime and the millions of people who attended them, there must be thousands of people who can say, “I once met Billy Graham.” With his death announced yesterday, however, I played through that…
I was coming out of a large clinic on the west side of the city early this afternoon and it was clear there was some kind of fracas ensuing. Now, this clinic is designed primarily for orthopedics, physical therapy, exercise and the like with a little bit of cardiology thrown in. So the people you…
As I was heading into the downtown of the city yesterday, I approached a stoplight (or, as they are known in this part of the world, stop-and-go light) which was red so I started to slow long before I got to the intersection. And then I saw it. Right there in the middle of my…
Terry’s dad had been in declining health for some time. The docs didn’t really know what was ailing him. He was 85 years old and perhaps they decided that that, along with a lifetime of smoking, was enough explanation. But it would have been nice to know. He had been a sharecropper his entire life.…
I really was trying to be upbeat about it all. Sitting there on a hospital bed waiting to be prepped for rotator cuff surgery, I was very thankful to be getting the attention I needed to have. I had to fight my way in to see the orthopedic surgeon because of clinic and insurance rigmarole…
The preacher must have felt as though she had drawn the short straw. Among the seven evangelists gathered in the sanctuary this afternoon, she had been given a passage of scripture that, summed up, was called Condemnation. “I didn’t want to preach on condemnation. I wasn’t sure what condemnation meant,” she said, “so I looked…
Readers, I hope you will forgive me. I had planned to just continue posting to my blog as usual after my rotator cuff surgery on March 13. Instead, I’m finding typing to be almost impossible. So I’ve missed last week and because I don’t want to leave you without anything this week, I’m offering you…
It always takes me a bit to fully understand people who speak with an accent as a result of their birth in another country. It’s usually those for whom English is a second language but those from another country whose first language is English can pose a challenge for me too. I love British accents,…
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