Russellings of the Spirit

God

  • Afflicting the Comfortable

    Thank God for Willis Carrier. Mr. Carrier, as you may have heard, is widely believed to be the inventor of the modern air conditioning system. According to Wikipedia, while Carrier did indeed develop the first ELECTRICAL air conditioning system in… Continue reading

  • Viva la difference!

    I’m sorry, but it’s true; I am married to the best cook in the world. The votes are in… tallies have been verified by Price-Waterhouse… the verdict is final. How she does it – consistently night after night– I’ll never… Continue reading

  • Showing Off

    I approach exercising much the same way I approach brushing my teeth. Grudgingly. Unexcitedly. Yet gloomily resigned to the fact that horrible consequences will likely follow if I don’t suck it up and JUST DO IT, as Phil Knight constantly… Continue reading

  • 19 Irises

    Check out these absolutely STUNNING Iris flowers we saw on our morning walk. I’m really not much of a flower guy, but are those INCREDIBLE or what? I have always loved Irises. They are so soft and dainty, yet explosively extravagant in… Continue reading

  • Holy Unsettledness!

    I love to travel. In fact, Joan and I just returned from a great, nine-day trip to the state of New Mexico. In fact, if you’d like some tips on things to see and do in Taos, or White Sands… Continue reading

  • Blessed Reassurance

    Oh, how I loved it. How it used to stir my soul.  There we were, sitting in our neat rows in Mrs. Olds’ fifth grade classroom. She had just posed a question to the entire class… on which topic I… Continue reading

  • Easter, God’s Will, and the War in Ukraine

    Since the beginning of time, war has been hell.  War costs millions of innocent lives. In the blink of an eye, war destroys people, communities, vegetation, and futures. Some of us have seen war firsthand. Most of us have just… Continue reading

  • Did You Notice?

    Sometimes it is easier not to notice.  I’m not talking about merely SEEING… skimming briskly across the surface, dipping in a toe here, then here… … absorbing just enough substance from which to fashion a quip, a comment, a post…… Continue reading

  • Lent and the GTS

    I miss Facebook. You see, my chosen Lenten discipline this year was pursuing a fast (i.e., a period of intentional self-denial) from Facebook. Facebook had become something I found myself being sucked into WAAAAY too often. I rationalized that I used… Continue reading

  • Happy Anniversary, Sweetie

    Earlier this week, we celebrated an anniversary. It was the third anniversary of Joan joyfully and triumphantly ringing the brass bell that marked the end of her chemotherapy and the beginning of her remission from cancer. It has been a… Continue reading