by design | Feb 17, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Quieting the Scruffy Voice By Joe Rector I flipped through videos on YouTube the other day, and up pops Jimmy Buffet singing with Zac Brown and Mac McAnally. The trio did a fine rendition of “A Pirate at Forty,” one of my favorite songs of Jimmy’s. After shuffling...
by design | Feb 10, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Lonely By Joe Rector The human soul goes through a flood of emotions during this time on earth. They lead an individual to unmeasurable joy or insufferable sadness. Of all these emotions, perhaps none is as ravaging as loneliness. My life has been filled with love and...
by design | Feb 3, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Water By Joe Rector This past Sunday, our minister gave the second in a series on the book of John. She discussed the significance of water for Christians and the many things for which it is a symbol. Of course, baptism is the most obvious one. After church, I began...
by design | Jan 27, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
I Have Car Fever By Joe Rector Sickness is at hand. So many “bugs” and viruses are in the air that almost all of us will at some point succumb to the effects of them. Covid, no matter how many people deny its existence, still hits folks to varying degrees. I’ve had a...
by design | Jan 20, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Complaining about the weather By Joe Rector The weather forecasters are warning folks in our area of “possible” dangerous conditions. In fact, they tell us that multiple winter storms are stacking up on the west coast and are heading, one after the other, for the east...
by design | Jan 6, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
We are made for kindness By Joe Rector Amy and I made plans for travel to a special destination for our 50th anniversary. Those plans melted in tears with the unexpected passing of our son Dallas in September. Since that time, we’ve become the owner of a second...
