Shipboard life is finally settled enough that I could work in an early morning (7:00) walk. The prominod around deck 2 is exactly 1/4 mile so 12 quick laps and I was ready for Breakfast. Cheryl decided that walking later was much preferable so as I was leaving room service showed up with ‘first breakfast’ […]
Up at an uncivilized hour as we docked at Road Town on the Island of Tortola (Spanish for “Turtle”) After a quick breakfast (sorry, no food photos this morning) we donned ‘wet hiking’ gear… to meet our group for our excursion to Virgin Gorda (The Fat Virgin) – Columbus saw the highest hill and declared
When last we heard from our intrepid explorers they had poured themselves into bed in the wee small hours of the morning. Before we retired we hung a room service breakfast order on our door with a requested delivery time of 9:00. Room service was important for this meal because we were quarantined in our
The alarm went off some time before 4:00 so we could catch the 4:20 shuttle to the airport. This is not to say that we were awakened at that time. Some of us had been awake since 2:00. Others of us had slept peacefully and were “rip roarin’” and ready to get this adventure started!
This was anything but a typical ‘Day 0’ – no vacuuming, no cleaning bathrooms, didn’t even have to shovel the walks. That’s because we weren’t home. This trip actually started a week ago on Christmas day. Here’s the schedule: 12/25 – Quiet Christmas with dinner at Brad and Lily’s (both Carl and Jessica were in
A sermon preached at Southminster Presbyterian Church, October 31, 2021 John 8:31-36 “Out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it, the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology, and ordinary lecturer therein at Wittenberg, intends to defend the following statements and to dispute on them in that place.
Delivered at the Meeting of the Synod, October 8, 2021 James 1:21-26, Matthew 25:34-40 It’s been a really interesting year, these past 12 months since I was installed as your moderator. It’s a year that I pray won’t be repeated, though I’m afraid that’s little more than wishful thinking on my part. Yet, through it
A sermon preached at King Hill United Presbyterian Church on July 11, 2021. Mark 6:14-29, Amos 7:7-17 Today’s texts are particularly challenging to me. After reading them over a couple of times I was troubled by what they were saying to me so I wrote short descriptions of each. For the text from Amos I
A message delivered as opening devotions for a special called meeting of the Synod of the Pacific, August 16, 2021. I was casting about for some reading to share with you today – someone else’s words that matched my thoughts – when I decided that it would be more to the point to share a