If you can confess to having gone to Walmart once in your life, there is the distinct possibility that you have had the following experience:  You are in line, a rather long line, waiting for your turn at the cashier to purchase your items and go on your way. …

 Many times a connection between the first reading and the Gospel is somewhat elusive.  I felt this while reading through the daily scriptures this morning.  It was perhaps the closing line of the Gospel that struck me that there was indeed a connection. …

I remember spending several weeks of the summer during my youth in Mobile, Alabama, visiting my Dad’s mom and family.  One particular summer, while writing a letter home, my Grandma Telhiard noticed that I was placing my face very close to the page of the letter that I was writing. …

“The tent, which was called the meeting tent, Moses used to pitch at some distance away, outside the camp.”  (EX 33:7-11).

Two particular camping events stand out in my memory right now; probably because of the inherent humor I find in them:

The first one involved a camping trip to Ft.…

Many times we refer to the extreme (untapped) possibilities in a given situation, or even in a particular person, as a “sleeping giant,” that once awakened could produce magnificent effects on the most grand scale.  The question always becomes, how do we awake this “sleeping giant?” …