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...
by Gerry Blumberg | Feb 4, 2007 | Flashlight
Recently, I had a phone conversation with my daughter and she mentioned that my two-year-old granddaughter is driving her nuts. She described the ability of this tiny headstrong girl to throw a fit accompanied with all the wailing, crying, and commotion that she can...
by Gerry Blumberg | Feb 2, 2007 | Flashlight
We flew out to visit family and friends in Tennessee for a few days but have not escaped the cold! I realized before we left that I had finally come to the end of my frenzy of house preparations and settling in. The holidays have come and gone and with it all the...
by Gerry Blumberg | Feb 2, 2007 | Flashlight
Years ago I participated in a parent committee formed by the local School Board to review the curriculum’s of sex, drugs, and AIDS education for grades K to 12. What a challenge! I have tackled many”impossible” tasks in my life assuming that with...
by Gerry Blumberg | Feb 2, 2007 | Flashlight
Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NLT) During a phone call with my daughter yesterday, we discussed the importance of teaching children to have an attitude of...
by Gerry Blumberg | Jan 18, 2007 | Flashlight
A cold spell is sweeping the nation, even in Arizona. All of my newly planted flowers are struggling for survival even with my limited attempts to protect them and cover them with frost cloth. I can fret about what to do next but God is the only one who can control...
