Fifty Years Ago
It’s still hard for me to believe that September 18 is my son Greg’s 50th birthday. Born as Gregory Scott at the Mary Breckenridge Hospital in Hyden, Kentucky, he entered the world on a Sabbath afternoon at a whopping weight of nine pounds. We were astounded by the...
What’s In It for Me?
I’ve found that one of the strange benefits of reading the Gospels is that it makes me so very ashamed. Christ came to us in the flesh, and one of the things that never, ever crossed His mind was what was in it for Him. The great love He had for a humanity that...
Expectations
“Your biopsy results are in.” The doctor continued, “It’s an aggressive form of cancer, but it was only present in two of the twelve biopsies. It appears we caught it early enough, but I’m ordering a PET scan to make certain it hasn’t metastasized.” Those are words...