From June 2015

Annual Conference

Every year, for the last 40 years, I have spent a week at the East Ohio Annual Conerence of the United Methodist Church in Lakeside Ohio.  I started attending as a teenager and continued to attend throughout my ministry.  Last year at Annual Conference I retired. This blog has detailed my journey through the last …

Read more

Silence in Us

At a recent worship service the pastor spoke the line, “Silence in us any voice but yours.”  I’m not sure what the rest of the prayer said because I got stuck on that line. Silence in us. What a wonderful idea and how rare in our lives these days.  Last night I couldn’t get to …

Read more

Westerville Bike and Walk Trail

Yesterday Tom and I enjoyed an adventurous ride on the Westerville Bike and Walk Trail.  We also rode two shorter trails that are north of the Westerville Bike and Walk Trail called the Genoa Trail and the Hoover Scenic Trail. The Genoa Trail and the Hoover Scenic Trail (which runs along Hoover Reservoir north of …

Read more

Olentangy Greenway Trail

This week Tom and I tried a new (to us) bike trail, the Olentangy Greenway Trail.  Columbus has lots of great bike trails and the Olentangy is one of the prettiest.  We chose it because we drive by it every time we go to John and Jackie’s.  It parallels 315 through the northern part of …

Read more

Helping Family

One of the joys of retirement is having plenty of time for helping family.  I am blessed that both of my parents are still around and able to be active.  Tom and I are also blessed to have a son and daughter-in-law who don’t seem to mind us being around and wanting to help out. …

Read more

Fun Stuff

Tom and I spent the weekend with John and Jackie in Columbus doing fun stuff.  Tom and John spent most of the day on Saturday playing paintball while Jackie and I went to Temptations Yarn Store to spend the gift card she and John got me for Christmas.  It is always fun to feel the …

Read more

Hide and Seek

I grew up in a neighborhood with lots of kids and we would spend most of our summer days outside playing together.  We often played “Hide and Seek” and its variant, “Kick the Can.”  I was a pretty good hider, but not a very good runner, so I had a hard time getting to base …

Read more

The Book of Forgiving

There are plenty of books written on forgiving others, especially from a Christian point of view.  Forgiving is an important part of our faith.  Every time we pray “The Lord’s Prayer” we ask for our sins to be forgiven as we have forgiven others.  In fact, the verses in “The Lord’s Prayer”  imply that we …

Read more

River Trail Crossing RV Park

I haven’t been writing about campgrounds that are repeats for Tom and me in Ohio, but we recently stayed at River Trail Crossing for a week, and this was a new place to stay.  River Trail Crossing RV Park in Butler is the closest campground to my parents in Lexington.  From the campground we could …

Read more