Russellings of the Spirit

retirement

  • An Ode to Chores

    Got any chores needing done? I’m your guy! During my lifetime (feel free to add the word “extensive” here if you so choose), I have had a very up and down relationship with the whole concept of chores. Growing up, I hated… Continue reading

  • Old, Fresh, and Green

    Here it is, year 3.5 and I am still not sure I have this thing figured out. The “thing” to which I refer is, of course, retirement. OK. I’m not dumb. I know what the word itself means… even without… Continue reading

  • Change is Good?

    I preach change all the time. When some flavor of change seems to be looming on the horizon, I find scripture to cite to assure folks that God is not just GOOD with change but often actually goes out of his… Continue reading

  • Hearing the Call

    “Who is calling, please?” Remember life before there was such a thing as Caller ID? We just blindly answered the phone whenever it rang, trusting that the person on the other end was someone we knew. It never occurred to… Continue reading

  • It’s Closing In!

    I’m not going to lie… I am more than a little bit scared. There is a date looming on my calendar that ties my stomach into the kind of knots only a Boy Scout could master. What is the nature… Continue reading