At this moment (Tuesday morning, April 25, 2023), I am typing on my laptop. I am using Microsoft Word Office Home & Business 2021 for Mac, version 16.72, copyright 2023. I like this version because, among other changes, it has a vastly improved word list. Sometimes I get stuck trying to find just the right…

Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the LORD has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the LORD has commanded. Moses describes in Exodus a situation in which the Israelites were commissioned by God, each according…

In The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, “I am sorry I can say nothing more to console you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.” He went on from there, but that fragment serves to express what many think when the term “love” is used. Much has…

Sometimes we simply have to hand it to someone for being committed to activity, even if our ‘admiration’ is given grudgingly. There are many people in our world, for better or for worse, who take life by the horns and do what they think needs to be done to live and survive. Case in point:…