A Pastor's Mid-Year Musings

When you insist that VBS songs have too many hand motions coming too rapidly for normal human being to learn—and then you see the entire row of early elementary school girls in front of you performing the motions with ease—you know it is no longer “your day”.

People detest prophets because they warn of danger when everything seems to be going rather well.

I’ve learned from umpiring baseball that the people who know the least express their opinions with the greatest vigor and the most volume.

For the longest time I was annoyed at the growing number of people who had terrible diction. Then I got hearing aids.

It’s amazing how sensitive teeth are. If something as fine as a piece of hair enters your bite, you know it immediately.

The best education is learning how to learn.

Think about how precise language can be. There is quite a difference between saying “take time for yourself”, “take your time”, and “you certainly took your good old time”.

I used to think watching birds was something only old people enjoyed. But in the past few years I’ve really come to enjoy it, and I’m only 65.

Some people believe capitalism is evil because it doesn’t distribute resources to everyone equally. But nature doesn’t distribute resources equally either.

In a fallen world, you must learn to embrace the imperfect and work to improve it gradually—and repeatedly.

Traveling doesn’t necessarily make you better at living among your neighbors.

Perhaps the most liberating aspect of growing older is discovering that it is acceptable to say “I don’t really have an opinion on that.”

Botanically speaking, oranges, zucchinis, and cantaloupes are berries, but strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries are not.