Leaning Forward
Tis the season to make resolutions. To choose one or two things to resolve to do differently as one-year changes to the next. I’m not a big fan of resolutions,…
Category: Encouragment
Colors of Christmas – Gold
Our final Color of Christmas is gold and its symbolism of value. We may not be paid in gold or use gold at the local store, but the idea of…
Colors of Christmas – Silver
What exactly is the color of silver? Except for some nuance of shading, silver shares its color with chrome and stainless steel. It is easily mimicked by tinsel. (Does…
The Colors of Christmas – Red
Red seems to be everywhere when Christmas comes around. It is the most common color for Santa’s suit thanks to Coca-Cola. Red balls, bows, and lights hang on many Christmas…
Advent 2023 – Hope
There are many traditions around Christmas. Large traditions, cultural traditions, church traditions, and family traditions. These are the things that make Christmas what it is—a reminder of things past and…
Love Hopes
Hope is a tricky thing. Sometimes hope is what keeps us going like a glimmer of light at the end of a long tunnel. But hope can also blind us…
Ready For This?
Over the past few days, I’ve heard folks lamenting, “I’m not ready for winter.” Yep, things are changing from the balmy days of summer, through the crispness of fall, and…
Building UP
There are parts of the Bible we tend to leap over. The lengthy geologies scattered throughout the text, for instance. There are also sections that no longer seem to apply.…
Standing With Israel
I don’t often write about current events on these pages, but today is different. While wars and rumors of wars have always been with us, the current battle in Israel…
Coloring Between the Lines
I first published the following article shortly after starting Lambchow. It’s about something Asher, my oldest grandson, said. At that time, Asher was in preschool. Now he is a ninth…
Love is Always the Right Answer
Everything dies. Entropy, the movement from order to disorder, is the nature of the universe. That’s a rather dark way of starting an article about agape love. But in 1…
Lost Sheep
During my youth, we raised sheep for 4-H and FFA projects. One night, very earlier in my sheep raising career, we received a phone call from a neighbor. He had…