Dear Friends, I held on to this Word of Grace for over a week. I have been so disgusted at the U.S. presidential campaign (a bipartisan disgust), that to talk about any issues has been hard for me after my long time off. I talk about a difficult issue in this message that I deal […]

Dear Friends, I am back. An annual business meeting required my presence in Vermont the first week of October. Patricia and I have traveled to this meeting by different routes over the years. We have driven there different years from Charleston, North Carolina, Niagara Falls, Washington D.C., and Bar Harbor, Maine. We have flown into […]

Dear Friends, This will be the last message until October 10,  the week of the eighteenth anniversary of the Word of Grace messages. Everything is fine with me, but I need to take a short hiatus to tend to something else. Thank you for subscribing or reading when someone else passes it on to you. […]

Dear Friends, It is 15 years ago this weekend since the horror of the terrorist attacks of 9/11. I looked back at the message I sent out the week after the attack in curiosity about how my thinking may have changed. Here is an updated version of the same message. My thinking hasn’t changed. As […]

Dear Friends, I share with you today one of those Scriptures which illumines how God will use even those things we despise and fear to help us move forward in his will. The Lord said: . Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the […]