I’m a walker and Maxine is a golfer. One bright summer day, we challenged one another to try each others’ sports. Yup, Maxine and me. Maxine caught on to walking fairly easy – after I talked her out of her robe and slippers and into a fashionable jogging outfit . Then I had to try her sport. I stood knees slightly bent, feet apart, head down, arms straight but relaxed, fingers interlocked around a shaft of a golf club that looked like only half of it survived a land mine explosion, and my eyes fixated on a small, pock-marked Read More
Category: Knowing Jesus
The Gatekeeper
Once upon a time, an old man, a moral man, died. He walked along a path looking for a way to enter heaven. The first gate he came to had the inscription “The Gate of Good Deeds” posted high up on the iron bars. He clanged the iron door knocker and waited for he gatekeeper. Surely, the good deeds he had done; giving a hitchhiker a ride, praying for a sick neighbor, giving to the poor, would count in his favor. He was sure of it. The gatekeeper did not smile as he said, “God desires that everyone do good Read More
The Teacher Through Elly’s Eyes
He was not an ordinary preacher or teacher who taught in the Temple. This Man often taught in open spaces like on a hillside or from a boat at the beach. On a particular day, He held the attention of a very large crowd who had gathered in a solitary place – some to hear what He had to say; others came to be healed of their diseases. A man, his wife and their two young sons settled on the green grass on the outer fringe of the great multitude. “Can we move closer?” Elly asked her husband. He nodded Read More