Frank Sinatra made a 1921 Al Jolson song very popular in the 1940s.  It was called April Showers.  Some of those familiar lyrics are: Though April showers may come your way, They bring the flowers that bloom in May, So if it’s raining have no regrets, Because it isn’t raining rain you know, it’s raining… Read More »

Today is National Reconciliation Day, a day to mend fences and restore relationships.  How ironic that it follows April Fool’s Day, a day when the practical jokes may have gone too far and created some of these relationship fractures.  The irony, though, is much deeper than that. Esther Pauline “Eppie” Lederer was a famous newspaper… Read More »

We live in an era that is both a blessing and a curse.  Information is as close as the click of the mouse and the speed of your DSL connection.  Analyzing and vetting books and authors was easier when their latest tome came out in hardback and new books were published once a year.  With… Read More »

“In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.  (2)  And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the… Read More »

Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, J.F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan had a few things in common.  Obviously, they were all presidents.  But they all have shared the undesirable event of being shot.  Only one survived.  On this day in 1981, President Reagan was shot in the chest by John Hinckley, Jr. outside of… Read More »

Religion calls today “Good Friday.”  It is the day that remembers the crucifixion of Jesus.  While many including myself recognize that it can’t be Good Friday because three days and nights in the grave with a crucifixion on Friday will not result in a Resurrection Sunday, it is still important for us to remember and… Read More »

Today is National Triglycerides Day and a good opportunity to use a devotional as a public service announcement.  This day was created in 2018 as way to get people to consider one of the many health issues developing in America. TIME reports that “Triglycerides are a type of fat (or lipid) naturally made in your… Read More »

I don’t know about you, but I need a bit of a lighter devotional since the last three days have been a bit hard hitting.  So, let’s sit back and let me take your minds back to easier, simpler, and memorable days.  Think about when you were little, or your kids were little.  My guess… Read More »

Without purposefully trying, it seems the last three days’ worth of devotions have fallen in the same theme.  Yesterday, I mentioned cult leader Jim Jones. Today is the inauspicious anniversary of an event that we wish would never have happened.  However, as long as there are false teachers in the world, there will always be… Read More »

Don’t drink the water!  That’s good advice when travelling to another country or posted on a sign near a water hole in the desert.  It’s also good advice when flying the friendly skies.  Experts warn that if you want to refill your water bottle in the lavatory sink, DON’T.  Cleverjouney.com says it is not potable… Read More »