Pastoral Ponderings

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.”

Dear God, “If my friends could see me now…” Who hasn’t spoken these words before! I just said that to Janita, you know, our office everything (she doesn’t like me to say the “s” word!). I think she and my

Dear God, The door to my childhood home wasn’t anything fancy.   You probably remember the old farm house we were raised in: big by many standards. Three bedrooms upstairs: my three dorky brothers in one, two sisters in another,

Dear God, You were there. In fact, all your people from the Old Stone Church were there. You know I just started serving as a volunteer in the Rockford Police Chaplains unit. I don’t share a lot of what happens,