It’s Not Rocket Science I vividly recall sleeping in what we boys called “Aunt Thelma’s room” at Mamaw and Papaw’s on April 12, 1981. Dad tiptoed in the room as not to wake my sleeping brothers and told me it was time to get up and come to the TV. Walter Cronkite was on live […]

The W-Word I’ve hated the “w-word.” I’ve become angry when my wife suggested it, and heaven forbid a nurse mention it at the doctor’s office. I can walk. I will walk. No matter how difficult. No matter the pain. No matter how it looked. No matter whom I offended. I was going to walk. “Wheelchair” […]

The Potter When I wrote about the negative things I have learned from my illness, I noted that doctors are not God. God is God. God alone is God. No created being can take his place. He sits in majesty on high. Man, however, for one reason or another always thinks that he himself is […]

What Does the Bible Say about Doctors? I have seen just about every type of specialist under the sun. I have seen a neurologist and a podiatrist and a urologist and an orthopedist and a hematologist and ophthalmologist and a dermatologist and a cardiologist and probably a few I haven’t named. I wrote a couple […]

Passages of Scripture to Comfort in Times of Trouble Last week I offered some Scriptural quotations to help us face difficult times in life. Today I wish to continue looking at some passages of holy writ which will comfort and console us when life does not go our way. Now there was a day when […]