Later this week, we will venture upon Valentine’s Day. Over the years I have tried to appreciate that holiday and at the same time, I realize that it is not a celebration for everyone. In fact, those without a “sweetheart” to celebrate with on that day would like to forget that it exists altogether. It means something to us to be loved by someone else. If we are single on that day it means our loved one has either never arrived or they have gone. The two most essential needs in life are to love and to be loved. But that makes me ask this question to myself – “How…

You may be reading these words when 2020 is less than a couple of weeks old. Just a few days ago, we were expressing to others wishes for a “happy new year.” Some of us made a lot of (or a few) resolutions. We somehow tried to convince ourselves that the new year would provide for us new and exciting prospects. Maybe we should know better. Many of us have seen the new wear off before. Less than a month ago, some of us saw children get all excited about some new toy they had received as a present. We’ve also seen that the excitement waned very quickly – sometimes…

No, I didn’t make a mistake in my title. Yes, I know most people are going around saying “happy new year.” Everyone seems to be making their new year’s resolutions once again pharmacom for the year 2020. It seems like a good and logical thing to do. Maybe you plan to lose weight or exercise more. Possibly your resolution involves becoming more spiritually-minded and studying the Bible every day, perhaps even reading it through this year. All of those things are good to think about and try to implement in your life, but who said you would have a whole year? Didn’t Jesus Himself say, “Therefore do not be anxious about…

Welcome to 2020. New Year’s Day seems to be a day for reflecting and planning. Resolutions are often written or calendars are finalized. But instead of working on year-long goals, I want to challenge each of us today with some simple things you can do every single day to make your day better. And the best part? None of them takes more than a few moments of your time. Read God’s Word. Whether it is trying to read through the entire Bible in a year or diving more deeply into studying a particular passage, nothing can help you have a better day than hearing what God wants for your life.Pray…

Because we are so driven by time, we really can’t help but reflect on the past year, especially when we are about to turn the calendar. 2020 – Does this even seem possible? Another decade has been completed and we press on to the next. Time is moving on and as the years go by it seems to be speeding up for those of us who are playing the back nine. While it is a regularly accepted practice to make New Year’s resolutions, my question for you today is more about the process by which you come to your decision. Maybe you have no plan to make any resolutions. Maybe…

When I was a child, I thought that there was a great deal of time between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. I’m not sure why I thought that, but it took me a while to figure out that the actual time is only one week. (You may be reading these words a little past the midway point in that week.) As I think back on my misconception about that amount of time, I wonder if all of us are, in some ways, guilty of “mis-measuring” time. I’m wondering if that is true with regard to something much more important than the amount of time between December 25th and January 1st.   According…