Each Christmas Eve we go to church for its Christmas Eve service. This year, we decided to try to get some photos with the lovely poinsettias in the background. I left out the photo of them all which had two disgusted and exasperated parents with funny faces.
I don’t like to dwell on the past, but my church reminded me Sunday of the merits of remembrance. We took time in the morning service to solemnly watch a slide show of the happenings on the day of September 11th. I don’t know how I happened to have...
Fatherlessness – Our nation’s number one social epidemic. The United States is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today, an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity...
Blessed are the husband and wife who continue to be affectionate, considerate, and loving after the wedding bells have ceased ringing. Blessed are the husband and wife who are as polite and courteous to one another as they are to their friends. Blessed are they who love their mates more...
Another year, another trip to The Wilds! Our teens will go to North Carolina for a week of fun, Bible study, and cut off from the world. No cell phones, no radios, no mp3 players, no computers, nothing. Each year, no one seems to even miss their connection to the...
The next part of Memorial Day Weekend was our church picnic. The day started as usual, seeing Mr. Mason cooking the hamburgers and hotdogs. Laura and Miquel in a big game of soccer. Mike brought his appetite, and why not? No one cooks it up like Baptists at a barbecue!...
Our Christmas Eve is always a special occasion, but this year so much more with Enric, Miranda and Silas with us. We first had a Catalan Dinner that I prepared, and it was the BEST Fideus I had ever made. Next, we went to Christmas Eve Service at Church. Then...
Each year my children look forward to their big summer event and go with our church youth group to the Wilds Camp in North Carolina. This year the excitement was a little different as Laura wasn’t sure she wasn’t going to be able to go until the last minute....
Miquel, The Graduate Seems like there are certain occasions that just take more than one day around here. Miquel’s high school graduation seems to be just such an occasion. Yesterday at church during the morning service, all the graduates were recognized by Pastor Caleb, and given gifts. Later, in the...
I’ve been going through old photos and scanning them. I thought I would share some past Easters with you. The first is my mom and I in front of our new house. I guess I was 7 or 8. The second is me in our Baltimore back yard. Next to...
Rapture. I don’t think this word is anywhere in the Bible, but it has come to have meaning to Christians who believe in a time when Jesus will return to collect His church in the air. This was a constant topic in our youth groups when I was growing up....
Yesterday, a day before the usual July 4th celebrations we went to a local park to watch fireworks. This was a tad stressful for me in the sense that years running now, I haven’t really had successful fireworks photographs for my efforts. I am happy to say this year was...
The pastor this morning quoted from the Gospel of Mark: “And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.” He went on to say that too often we get caught up in the things of the...
Want to live longer? Go to church!No kidding! A new scientific study finds people who attend religious services weekly live longer. “Religious attendance is not a mode of medical therapy,” said study leader Daniel Hall, a resident in general surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. “While this study...
Laura has kept us busy these days. Today she was baptized. Friends came, and so did my sister and her husband too. Before I was baptized, my dad teased me endlessly how I was going to get dunked three times and brought up twice. Naturally, I passed that on to...
I’ve spent hours with my son Enric playing and building things with his legos. So it was so wonderful when I received a certain email from my cousin Tanya with pics of this Lego contruction of a church…
“An old memory” that was the subject line from an email from my dearest and most long time friend ever, Myrna. I couldn’t imagine what it was going to be, except perhaps, something had happened to trigger a memory of times together so many years ago. Her dad was the...
