(Mark 3:1-6) Sometimes matters of worry, responsibility, or challenge can leave our spirits feeling wilted, weathered, withered. Sometimes a modern-day picture of a Biblical remedy presents itself. And sometimes, like today, a withered spirit and a Biblical remedy meet in an unlikely setting . . .  I’m the new owner of the wooded lot next…

The first part of today’s blog is a devotional I wrote for my church’s Lenten series.  What follows is, as Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story. Well, the rest of our stories.  John’s, mine . . . and maybe yours. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved…

Throughout Scripture we’re compared to sheep. Hardly ever to oxen. You may not mind being compared to a cute, cuddly sheep. But an ox? Um, no. Honestly, until I dived into “AI” I assumed oxen were cousins of cows. Wrong.  They’re not cousins. An ox is a cow. A castrated adult male cow. Now who…