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Skip Burke
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Emanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”” Matthew 1:23 NKJV It’s the week after Christmas, 2022. This season my attention has been intently drawn to Emanuel. The birth of Jesus, the incarnation of God, brought a new and different level of…
According to Conde Nast Travel Magazine, the #1 hotel in the world for 2021 was La Mamounia in Marrakech, Morocco. Since the early 1900’s “everyone” has stayed there, from FDR to Churchill to movie stars. Many times, a hotel becomes famous for the persons who stayed there. I doubt that I’ll ever stay at La Mamounia. A…
Green beans…my favorite vegetables. Always have been. Southern style; not the northern way where the beans are lightly cooked and still crunch like celery. Growing up I had green beans at least three nights per week. I still remember the cases of large cans of green beans that my grandparents stored in our basement. Fresh green beans are good…
It’s not very often that I find myself completely dumbfounded. But I have been since Saturday. ( It’s Tuesday.) And I really should have known. Many of us have needed and have had Miriam’s in our lives. You know, those people that God places in your path. Ones who from the sidelines influence your life when you start…
It seems that most advisers are always telling us to “see the big picture.” In the 1990’s, a couple of management gurus even came up with the term Big Hairy Audacious Goals to describe how we should “think big”. I’m not sure if it has been a blessing or a curse, but I think that “the big picture…