Pastoral Ponderings

Dear God,      As I write this, we stand a scant four weeks before Christmas. Amazing!      I’m thinking of something you can get me for Christmas, Lord: a Dick Tracy-styled time gadget for my wrist. It needs to be

Dear God,              So, imagine this. I, me, Dan Herman, The Amazing One (i.e. “What were you thinking?” to my parents), the Thing (to my sisters), Thor (to the carpenters who saw me wield a hammer), Hercules (to my children),

Dear God, Six years old is not old! That’s what I told the computer guy when he told me Carm’s “old” Apple laptop wasn’t worth fixing. Six years old! He said, “I might be able to fix it, if I

Dear God,    “Well, hello Grace.”    Have you ever done something un-graceful and ended up with the name “Grace” for a while?    It’s all in good fun and the name is usually earned as a result of temporary

Dear God,   Do you ever get things mixed up?   Actually, in my humble opinion, I think it might have happened once or twice to you. For instance, why can’t every bird fly…such as an ostrich…but some squirrels can…aside

  Dear God,      I will die one day. That is the fundamental reality of life. Well actually, there are two fundamental realities of life: we all suffer and we will all die. (Well actually, there are three fundamental realities

Dear God,      “We’re here…” A few years ago Tom Bodett, in his colloquial manner, put a phrase into our culture that continues to this day: “I’m Tom Bodett from Motel 6. We’ll leave the light on for ‘ya.” I

  Dear Lord, Let’s go back to last month when I wrote about my stereo system. I talked with you about my musical time travel through my college days. I shared with you (as if you didn’t already know) the

Dear God, I just got my turntable repaired. There’s a word you don’t hear anymore: turntable. When I left for college I grabbed a duffel bag of clothes and hopped in my ’68 American Motors Javelin with the 290 cubic

Dear God, Time is short, so I only have a moment… Isn’t that the description of the way I often deal with you…”I’ve only got a moment”…”Oh yeah, Thank you”…or, ”Lord, I didn’t think of this earlier, but thanks again.”