Seasonal Reflections

The "leap second" has been eliminated by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM). hile not actually true according to such strict standards as the BIPM, some months seem to me to fly by more quickly than others.

This week our country began its annual recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month. It is my prayer that we all feel more peace in our hearts and community as we honor the resilience, beauty and joy of our Hispanic friends, family and neighbors.

In a recent span of nine days, our world lost three iconic people whose influence will be long felt. The three could not be more different in many ways and yet were alike in staying true to themselves and what they believed mattered most in life for all their lives.

Memorial Day was not established as a federal holiday in our country until 1971. Often confused with Veterans Day, celebrated in November, both honor military service personnel, but ...

In my fifty-one years of ministry, beginning as a youth minister in the summer of 1975 at Riverside Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, I have learned how sensitive holidays can be for people. While we appreciate the opportunity to

When we purchased our river cabin in 2012 in Mysterious Waters, a small community on the Wakulla River, we did not have the idea that we would ever live in it full time. The improvements we made to the cabin through the years were modest and more about maintaining the property and home in good order than what we might wish to change or develop. Except for the secret garden. Early in our occasional visits to the cabin, I realized that there was a natural formation of trees th