by design | Apr 20, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I love rainy spring days, and still whisper the childhood rhyme, “April showers bring May flowers.” Of course if you’re having a picnic or a garden wedding you’d wish for a sunny day, but without rain and water, life as we understand it...
by design | Apr 13, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’ve been thinking about miracles lately. Mr. Webster gives three definitions of miracles. One is secular and the other two describe extraordinary events as the work of God or a “divinely natural phenomena experienced humanly as the...
by design | Apr 6, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I think we too often take life for granted. The poet Walt Whitman once wrote, “The world is too much with us.” I believe he was saying that we are so busy that we overlook the beauty around us. And I believe too many ignore the Creator and take...
by design | Mar 30, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson I’ve been thinking about swimming lately. Not because I like to swim because I don’t. Swimming for me is not the fluid or powerful strokes of an Olympian, but struggling to avoid drowning. I remember my mother taking a station wagon load of...
by design | Mar 23, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Spring seems tantalizingly close, even though it’s cold and rainy today. By this time of the year most of us are sick of winter, and any “backsliding” of spring is unacceptable. We even give the cold-snaps of spring colorful names like redbud or...
by design | Mar 16, 2015 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson Aches and pains are a fact of life as you get older. I don’t remember a lot of painful conditions as a kid, even with injuries. My brothers and I often went barefoot in those halcyon days of summer, and I remember a “stone bruise” of my heel that...
