From the General Presbyter “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau I could really just stop there. I am sure you have heard about the shootings at the massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia. A man targeted three businesses and was on his way to Florida to […]
March 4, 2021
From the General Presbyter “Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!” John C. Maxwell Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success – April 1, 2007 I love this term – failing forward. Simply put, it […]
February 17, 2021
From the General Presbyter “Lest our feet, stray from the places, our God where we met Thee. Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world we forget Thee.” – Lift Every Voice and Sing, James Weldon Johnson Welcome to Lent. It could not come fast enough after these eleven months of trials and […]
February 4, 2021
From the General Presbyter Sometimes other people say it better! “It is a commonplace remark that our lives are surrounded with so much movement, so many pressures, so many demands that our spirits are often crowded into a corner. As soon as we awaken in the morning we are taken over by the ruthlessness of […]
January 21, 2021
From the General Presbyter “I’ve got my shoes on and I’m ready to get to work.” – Senator Raphael Warnock, first African American Senator from Georgia, sworn in by the new Vice President, Kamala Harris. When then Senator Harris was selected as Joe Biden’s running mate, he asked her, “are you ready to get to […]
January 7, 2020
From the General Presbyter What really amazed me about yesterday’s insane, insidious events at the Capitol, stoked by Donald Trump, was that the same Congress members who have enabled Trump and his vitriol, stood up and said “This is not who we are as Americans.” This is exactly who we are as Americans. We are a […]
December 16, 2020
From the General Presbyter And he puzzled and puzzled, ’till his puzzler was sore.Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before!“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!” -Dr. Suess, How the Grinch Stole Christmas It is snowing as I write this. If I didn’t think […]
December 3, 2020
From the General Presbyter “I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.” – Morpheus from the movie The Matrix My daughter is at the impressionable age where she constantly asks me about information she gets on the internet. Some […]
November 25, 2020
November 11, 2020
From the General Presbyter It is my honor and privilege to submit a Midweek on Veterans Day. I consider my family “civilian” military. Though my father served in the Army for a short time, he was a career chemist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. My mother, also a career chemist, worked at […]