2019.12.11 – A Delivery From the Flying Scotsman

Hitchhiker’s bLOG – 2019.12.10

Collecting Stories As a pastor, I am a collector of stories; it’s inevitable. Some are stories of growing up or raising a family, others are about life’s challenges and the wins and losses that result. I get them sitting with hospice patients, and at baptisms. I hear them when meeting with couples I am going […]

Something to Think About – #25

I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. John 10:14-15 biblegateway.com Who do you know like this? I mean, who in your life do you know so well, and […]

Hitchhiker’s bLOG – 2019.12.03

Remember Puerto Rico? So I am sitting here by candle light after two days of freezing rain, heavy wet snow, and lost power. I have all of my freezer stuff in the snow outside the back door, and the refrigerator stuff is on the back porch. Nothing has spoiled…yet. Sure we have no heat, hot […]

Hitchhiker’s bLOG – 2019.12.02

Grandmas and Reindeer It’s that time of year. I’m in the kitchen making breakfast, watching the snow come down, and listening to Christmas music on the station that plays seasonal music. I’m enjoying Perry Como, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, The Carpenters, and Burl Ives. Oh the bliss… Then, like a […]

Something to Think About #24

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever… Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever. Psalm 136:1,26 esv On this Black Friday, where we get endless stories of sale items, mobs of people pushing over each other, and greed, let us worship […]

Hitchhiker’s bLOG 2019.11.27

Time Traveling….. Several times in the past two weeks, various conversations and situations have reminded me of all the places I have lived in my life. Then it occurred to me how 42 has given me these places to become part of who I am. In this week that reminds us to be thankful, I […]