HILLSVILLE  PRESBYTERIAN

You are presented with a choice. Let’s say your spouse wants to go out to eat, and they offer you the options of three different restaurants. Your response could simply be, “Suit yourself.” Now, that could seem like you are avoiding making a choice or that you are trying to keep the peace with your spouse or that you are expressing the fact that you really don’t care where you eat because you just want to eat. But at the heart of your response is permission for your spouse to

What a crazy language we have! The words at the beginning and the end of this title are spelled the same but are pronounced differently....

Call it determination. Or grit. Or even gumption. Fortitude. Willpower. There are more than a few words we use to describe commitment....

A friend calls late in the evening and out of the blue. That’s irritating enough but then the friend asks for a huge favor for the very...

Yard art has exploded with witches, ghosts, skeletons, gravestones, spiders’ webs, monsters, bats, and the like. Horror movie promotions...

Many people spend gobs of energy and globs of resources and blobs of time trying to get in shape or stay in shape or rearrange the shape...

Most if not all of us like to figure things out. Put the pieces of the puzzle together. Trace the logical path life should travel. Craft...

It’s a response that can save an endangered person’s life. It’s a technique well worth learning. It’s a relatively simple action that...

Years ago when I was younger and spent more time hanging out with teenagers, I rustled up a bunch of them and hauled them to a ski resort...

If we’ve been around at least a decade or so on this good earth, we know what it’s like to have our plans unravel and our projects fall...

Okay, let’s play for a bit, shall we? We all know what or who rubs us the wrong way, don’t we? We are well aware of the friction we feel...

Perhaps it is so as it was scripted for the opening of the iconic television series Star Trek … that space is the final frontier. This...

It doesn’t happen all that often but when it does, it’s an expansive experience. Sure, sometimes we’d prefer not to expand… or to be...

Summer is approaching and for many of us that might bring to mind thoughts of water. And not just drinking more water in the heat of the...

A six-year-old, separated from the adult who once held him in tow but who veered down a different aisle in the wide and wild world of...

Irony. Don’t you love it? Humor with a bite. So it is with the expression “clear as mud.” Words that don’t logically fit together. We all...

Knees. Wrists. Shoulders. Hips. All those places in our bodies that are prone to slip and slide and groan and grind. Potential...

The year was 1967. Television watchers were tuning into the Ed Sullivan Show, among other vintage favorites. During his tenure on air...

A person dies. Perhaps death came suddenly. A tragedy. The spouse, family members are grieving, in shock. The news ripples through the...

Who comes up with this stuff? How did it get to be accepted into our everyday language? And when did we decide it is something to be...