Love Endures All
We are all different. I know that is a shock to some of you. Each one is us is a unique, never to be repeated, complex stew of many factors.…
Month: October 2019
Rewind: Callie’s Story
From 2019 We’ve recently adopted an abandoned cat. Someone dumped her, and we suspect a sister or two in our neighborhood. Truly feral cats will have nothing to do with…
Love Rejoices in the Truth
We live in a world where truth is often a squishy matter of opinion more than a structure built on a solid foundation. Most of this is simply semantics. Truth…
Love Doesn’t Rejoice When Others are Bad
Our next “Love is” statement from 1 Corinthians 13 is a bit of a puzzler. Paul wrote, (Love) “does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;” (1 Corinthians…
Love Doesn’t Keep Score
By Ben Hoerr When my wife Tina and I were first engaged, we continued the tradition of playing games that we’d enjoyed in our respective families while growing up. On…
I Am Nominal
One time in a church I was visiting I heard a sermon which burdened my soul, and not in a good way. Now, I’m fully in favor of being challenged…
Love Isn’t Looking for a Fight
This summer Betty and I took a vacation the Great Smoky National Park in eastern Tennessee. Part of the charm if this area is its wildlife, especially the bears. The…
Love Doesn’t Demand its Own Way
From the earliest days of childhood, we’ve expressed our demands. Whether through wordless cries or foot-stomping tantrums. We want what we want right now. Which makes our next “Love is”…