Social Chaos
Those tricky foreign words
Good intentions are often misplaced as in the above photo. A young ad man proudly showed off his language skill and used this popular English phrase as an eye-catching slogan. It was a great success among foreigners who came in droves with their cameras. Surely the store owner was pleased. Similarly a Vietnamese restaurant near…
You’re not alone
In dealing with difficulties and trials in life, it helps to know you’re not alone. Difficulties come into everyone’s life. “My brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance; and let endurance have its full effect, so…
‘Stuff’ happens!
Bad things happen to everyone – it’s true. Including me. I remember a particular morning in the office it seemed like there was one problem after another – and they began to add up. It was time to go to lunch and yet another crisis came to my attention and before I knew it, it…
The farmer in the dell
Being from the big city (Portland, Maine: 75,000), my one memorable experience of rural life was a Boy Scouts overnight trip to a farm. First, tents were put up in a pasture, carefully avoiding the cow pies and then off to the fields for “tasseling the corn.” Having no idea what that meant, I gamely…
A time of new beginnings
One of my favorite phrases in Scripture is found more than 450 times in the King James Version of the Bible: “It came to pass.” This can be very good news, especially as we’re thinking of wilderness times. Wilderness times come. As sure as the sun will rise – there will be a season in…