by Karl | Feb 21, 2010 | Spiritual
In the spring of 1983, I think . . . I went white water rafting on the Youghiogheny River. It was a sparsely attended youth group outing of about 15 deranged souls. The trip began in Pennsylvania and ended just into West Virginia. Normally, it was a 5-hour experience...
by Karl | Feb 17, 2010 | Spiritual
There was one big suitcase, as I remember. I muscled it on the ferry and headed for the mainland. The weight was more than it should have been, almost as though there was a stowaway midst the clothing. Really, it was the finality of this trip and the months preceding...
by Karl | Feb 13, 2010 | Spiritual
A single point of a solitary 20 year-old sermon stays with me to this day. Mike was a missionary serving in New Guinea, observing from a background in communication and cultural anthropology, that the message that is the most predictable has the least impact and the...
by Karl | Dec 26, 2009 | Spiritual
I am 5’8.5” tall. If I was 6’ tall I really wouldn’t bother mentioning the other half inch . . . but currently it is important to me. Of my many distinctions, the fact that I lived through part of the hippie generation, without ever wearing bell bottoms, deserves at...
by Karl | Dec 16, 2009 | Spiritual
Twas the Sunday before Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was stirring, except perhaps a mouse The songs were sung by the choir with care, In hopes that the blessing soon would be there The children were settled while the young pastor read With slight...
by Karl | Nov 22, 2009 | Spiritual, Uncategorized
I am the King of Klutz when it comes to being handy. Actually I am more “thumby” than handy. One Christmas my wife wanted to buy me a cordless screwdriver. I told her that none of the screwdrivers that I currently owned had cords and wondered what would...
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