February 1, 2013 my wife, Phyllis, celebrated her 75th birthday. On the day she was born God put a tag on her toe that read, “When he asks, this one is for Ray!”
As a young Seaman in the Navy I prayed day after day for the girl that God had picked out as my life-mate. I didn’t know her name, but I knew she existed and I longed for the day we two would become one. We met during our first semester at Multnomah University
Continue reading My Wife is Perfect – for me!
My frontal lobe is clogged with fidelity thoughts! Why, I ask myself, should I be concerned with marital fidelity? I’ll be 80 this year,we’ve been in love for 57 years,
I’m studying The Abundant Life (John 10.10 NKJV). While wrapping my head around that concept, I was reminded that we are the Bride of Christ (I don’t know the exact connection either – but there it was). Continue reading Marriage is Like …
Sarah of the Old Testament is one of my all time greats! She was Abraham’s wife and life-time companion and she is the only woman in the New Testament mentioned as an example of how to be a good wife.
We had the privilege of having our two grandsons (two and four) with us for a wonderful week. Their parents drove them from Los Angeles to Tucson, spent the night and they left for a week-long conference.
The next morning the oldest grandson asked, “How long is a week?” Continue reading Logic, with a Four Year Old
In New York city there are thousands of taxi cabs, and few personal cars. When you travel to the Big Apple you don’t rent a car, you take a taxi, or the subway, or walk. The subway system seems Continue reading Taxi Talk
At one time in my life I was under a particularly heavy-set of business circumstances and I received enough traffic tickets in a short period of time to lose my license.
My life is not characterized by reckless driving. That is not who I am or what I am about. But if you were to take those few months and generalize my character from a few actions you could easily draw that conclusion. From that Continue reading Behavior, Character, & Communication
On one occasion our two sons were in the back yard cutting the big weeds with weed sickles before mowing the grass. The youngest son, soon tired of this weed cutting, and found a large insect on a board and announced to his brother that he was Continue reading Sickle The Bug
Ahasuerus had a mail service