by Gerry Blumberg | Mar 2, 2007 | Flashlight
I regularly read via email Bread for the Journey by Henry Nouwen. He writes daily pithy devotions that get right to the heart of the matter. One recently stabbed mine. “What is the basis of our security? When we start thinking about that question, we may give...
by Gerry Blumberg | Feb 27, 2007 | Flashlight
After the Academy Awards, everyone has a opinion on the winners and losers, the best and worst dresses, the laugh lines that were funny – or not, and always the length of the entire program. Some make this annual event into a party for friends while others prefer to...
by Gerry Blumberg | Feb 23, 2007 | Flashlight
Given the task of doing the eulogy at my mother’s recent funeral, this poem struck a deep chord within. Take a few moments and ponder on these words: HOW DO YOU LIVE YOUR DASH? I read of a man who stood to speak At the funeral of a friend. He referred to the...
by Gerry Blumberg | Feb 19, 2007 | Flashlight
I just opened my email to find a note from the neighborhood scribe that one of my neighbors collapsed in his yard yesterday and died. We have been here for just a few months so that I do not know this man yet shock is reverberating over the Internet and among the...
by Gerry Blumberg | Feb 15, 2007 | Flashlight
We have just made a swing through California to check on Dad and see the newly transplanted kids in the Bay Area. (I remembered why I am never moving again.) My son-in-law had been traveling all week and returned late Friday night. Early the next morning, my...
