We love summer and we’ve been enjoying it for the last eight days.  Naturally, though, summer is accompanied by what many would consider less than ideal characteristics:  heat, sweating while standing still, humidity, tornados, ticks, and bugs.  Of those bugs, “there are more than 30,000 species of wasp around the world but there are three… Read More »

Put ‘er there, pardner!  With that old statement, a simple handshake was requested and exchanged.  Since 2005, National Handshake Day was established by Miryam Roddy on behalf of BRODY Professional Development.  “This gesture is key to first impressions & relationships,” says Roddy regarding handshakes.1 And, in 2020, the handshake was sadly replaced with a fist… Read More »

President Bill Clinton (January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001) did something on this date that should have spoken volumes to the American people and set a precedent for future presidencies. Republican President George H.W. Bush (January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993) was defeated for reelection by Democrat William Jefferson Clinton.  Bush was expected… Read More »

If you were in church on Wednesday, May 29th, I told you that I had a moment in my study that made me feel like a preschooler learning their A-B-Cs all over again.  Here’s the scenario. Our Vacation Bible School theme is Camp Genesis:  Adventures In God’s Creation.  Lesson one is all about the creation… Read More »

Have you ever noticed a red or yellow dot on a set of new tires and wondered what it meant?  Does it have something to do with the cost?  Does this mark a defective tire – red meaning beware, low budget tire, and yellow meaning I should proceed with caution?  If I have both a… Read More »

Starting with the devotional on Monday, June 17th, you might have noticed something a bit different.  I’ve started to do something intentional that the Lord laid on my heart. Writing the devotionals is a difficult task for me because I’m not a creative individual and I’ve never thought of myself as particularly interesting.  And I… Read More »

Yesterday marked in my opinion a truly cringe worthy celebration.  It was National Selfie Day, established in 2014 by DJ Rick McNeely from Fishbowl Radio Network in Arlington, TX.  This was intended as a fun promotional for the radio network, but it grew into a charitable event. With 97% of Americans owning a smartphone, we… Read More »

Let’s take a moment today to correct a bit of a historical myth.  Yesterday was National American Eagle Day.  This bird of prey is our national symbol and is incorporated on The Great Seal of the United States, adopted on June 20, 1782. “The Continental Congress gave Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams the… Read More »

Visiting the island of Svalbard (previously known as Spitsbergen) is probably not on anyone’s bucket list or plans for travel this summer.  Where would you guess this place might be?  It’s in Norway, in case you’re wondering.  One of the major cities is Longyearbyen, “the world’s northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000, and… Read More »

Today’s devotional is a bit hard to work into a spiritual application.  However, I couldn’t let this day pass and I will get to a spiritual application.  Bear with me, though, as I set this up. In 1976, a cartoonist named Jim Davis started a strip that was known only to local newspapers.  On June… Read More »