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Renewing the mind…”Close that refrigerator!”

“Girls! Make up your minds what you want fast and close that refrigerator door. You’re letting all the cold air out,” I demanded in a raised voice directed toward Cayce and Jamie in the kitchen.  I was frustrated after having just gone through the upstairs rooms turning out all the lights that they had left on…

An overflow, or just a gurgle that’s mostly air?

I am trying to write my final post in the series about transforming your mind…but it’s very hard to think of much else when I am under such conviction following our Pastor’s sermon a few weeks ago..and a single statement that both says and asks so much.   “The grace of our…

Renewing the mind…Where is your “home”?

I was near the end of a twelve day trip to China when the meeting for my last scheduled day there was cancelled.  “Mr. Burke,” the lady from American Airlines on the other end of my phone call said apologetically, “we can get you back home a day earlier, but there will be a $1,200 charge…

Renewing the mind…or “You want me to what?”

The sincerity and the exasperation in Diane’s voice surprised me when she pleaded: “Would you please stop parking ugly in the driveway?” Hmmm. I grew up in Donelson, TN in the 1950’s and 1960’s.  I’m not sure we ever even used the term “landscaping”.  Grass was just something…

Do clothes make the man?

“Mom! You’re not going to let him wear that, are you?” This was a question that rang out in our house several times a week from the time Cayce reached about twelve years old until Jamie left for college…about ten years. I freely admit that, when fashion sense was being handed out, I was…