Mark 8:31-38There has been this ‘opportunity’ floating around Face Book lately. If you follow the provided link and insert your name and the year of your birth, you will be given a photograph of a gravestone like this: I’ve done it a couple of times and while the year is always the same, the cause …
Mark 1:9-15 On my day off this week I installed a new toilet paper holder. Now you should know I’m not the handiest person around. While I can accomplish some simple household tasks, it always takes an extra measure of effort and concentration. I was prompted to do this only because my old toilet paper …
Mark 9:2-9 My mother got hearing aids last month. By her own admission, it has been a wonderful enhancement of her life — making it possible for her to interact in social situations which were becoming increasingly difficult. Unlike for some, the adjustment has been an easy one for her, although she is still sometimes …
Mark 1:29-39 I find I get stuck in the first half of the lesson before us now… wondering at Simon’s Mother-in-Law and her immediate response to Jesus’ healing. I get stuck there, I suppose, because in some small way it is familiar to me even across this expanse of time and space and culture. For …