Month: June 2025

Here’s something that might stun you if you are of a certain age. The time span from 1970 until today, is equal to the time span from 1915 to 1970!

Isn’t it weird that we think so much time passed between 1915 and 1970, but the last half century seems to have flown past us. We’ve lived through so much more history than we realize. The pace of time is not going to stop. Our lives are going to continue streaking toward their destination. It should make us realize the value of each day, the preciousness of each opportunity.

Don’t put off enjoying, and restoring if necessary, the important relationships in your life. In the end, they will be what matters to you the most. And don’t forget your relationship with your Maker.

I’m not quite sure how it happened, but my email has been hijacked by spammers. In the last 24 hours, I have received unsolicited messages trying to sell me McDonald’s coffee, a cure for yellow toenails, a cabbage cookbook, a secret exercise to improve my memory, a way to cut my electric bill by 90 percent, how to get relief from neuropathy pain, and of course, a booster for my testosterone count.

And many more. So many voices from so many directions, all designed to make a buck, none have my best interests at heart. Some, in fact, want to swindle me. It’s made us an understandably suspicious culture, reluctant to trust anything or anybody. We have a longing to hear from someone who will tell us the truth. Someone who is coming from a position of love and care for our well being. Someone who has endured and conquered all the evil and deceptive influences over time.

You and I know who it is. It’s time to read and listen to His word.

Since I retired almost nine years ago I have had more time to read, and I have found myself becoming somewhat of a science geek. I am fascinated by studies of physics and relativity and other deep, brainy stuff. I don’t understand much of it, but I like to read books by people who do. Concepts such as slowing down time, and objects becoming more dense at high speeds really grab my imagination.

But the most brilliant minds in the world have been trying to answer the basic questions of human existence for centuries. How did all things begin? How did things become alive? What happens after death? Try as they might, so far at least, science can’t answer these questions definitively.

So your best option at this point is to trust God’s answers. They are easy to find. They’re all in His book. They hold true until somebody proves otherwise.

When I was working as a local television news anchor, I learned something about prestige that stuck with me. If I walked down the streets of my town, some folks would recognize me and treat me like a local celebrity. But if I got in my car and drove two hours in any direction, then got out of my car and walked the streets, nobody knew who I was, and nobody cared.

It taught me that prestige and “celebrity” aren’t real. They just exist in the mind of somebody else. If you’re depending on status and notoriety to make you happy, you will be truly disappointed. They disappear like dust on a windy day.

Better to remember Luke 14:11. “He who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”