An old question my former pastor asked was the question, “What came first?” “The Chicken or the Egg?” I remember this question. I was a young Christian and didn’t know the answer at the time. One Sunday evening service our pastor asked everyone to gather in our fellowship hall…

I remember when I first was deployed to Germany in the U. S. Army. I was only 19 at the time and just married less than a week after being married. There wasn’t much time to build our relationship. I entered the Charleston Military Air Command base with people with familiar uniforms, but still felt surrounded by strangers. During that first two weeks in Germany in the barracks, I was alone…

When I first got married some 40 years ago, I just knew my wife and I were in perfect harmony. Who wouldn’t think that about our spouses when we first got married? After the first few months of living together in a crowded small apartment in a foreign country, we both discovered we were two different people. Those early years brought about some very interesting and challenging discussions for sure…

I remember years ago speaking to someone who knew me from my childhood. They commented on some of the words they witnessed when I was a child. Don’t you just love those people? I told them I couldn’t remember saying it. They said, “I remember it like it was yesterday.” I didn’t… Yet, there are times when I think about things and words which come back as fresh as the day they occurred. Words testify. Strange how life and our memories work isn’t it? Maybe the thought I couldn’t remember, I don’t want to remember deep down. Maybe it was convenient memory…

A New Year begins. A lot of emotions will begin this year. For some it will be a New Year’s resolution. For others it could be another year they remain separated from their loved one. Whatever transpires this year, God knows it all. He began it all and he knows the future. He is from the eternal, the beginner of beginnings….