To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Jimmy Carter, whose life will be celebrated today at his funeral at the National Cathedral, has always been an anomaly among U.S. presidents. His one term in the Oval Office (1977-1981) ended in apparent disgrace. Voters, weary of stagflation and the Iran hostage crisis, rewarded his opponent Ronald Reagan with a… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Of the more than 4,300 episodes featured over the years on Sesame Street, #1839, which aired on Thanksgiving Day 1983, stands alone. That show has been identified as one of the ten most influential moments in the history of daytime TV. During that episode, the Sesame Street cast confronted the real-life… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Last year Mary Sue and I did what an average American will do 11.7 times during the course of their life. We moved. We left behind the little horse farm where we had lived for almost 19 years and moved to another little horse farm about a dozen miles up the… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here On April Fool’s Day, 1975, a drunk awoke in a doorway on Commercial Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His shirt was splattered with his own vomit. A street person had stolen his shoes during the night. As best he could remember, he had been drunk every day for the previous 18… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here One year ago today, a 13-year-old kid from Oklahoma did what was widely considered impossible. He beat Tetris. “I’m going to pass out, I can’t feel my fingers,” said Willis Gibson after conquering the mythical level 157 of the best-selling video game in history. Tetris, to put it mildly, can be… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Last fall I broke the rules at the airport. And I had to pay the price. Just as I was about to retrieve my carryon suitcase following its journey through the scanning machine, a polite man wearing the bright blue shirt of the Transportation Security Administration motioned me to stand back…. Read more »
It’s been the greatest privilege to be part of your mornings the past twelve months. As in past years, I’m going to step back between the holidays and take a seven-day “Sabbath rest.” Morning reflections will return next Thursday, January 2. Until then, may God bless you as you ponder his gifts of grace during the past year, and the promise of his… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. “He had equal status with God but didn’t think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here There’s something about bad news that grabs our attention. Consider this headline that appeared around the world six weeks ago: “Supervolcano Shows Signs of Waking Up, Which Would Plunge the World Into Chaos.” Those 13 words are what online marketers call “click bait.” The goal is to sufficiently stir your curiosity,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here There’s only one widely-sung Christmas carol whose verses tell a story. It’s also the only carol that spotlights a real-life character not found on the pages of Scripture. We’re talking about Good King Wenceslas, the recitation of a medieval tale now more than 1,000 years old. The lyrics we sing were… Read more »
