What a terrible tragedy! Maybe by the time you are reading this, more information has come out, but I’m baffled by how this airliner/helicopter collision could have happened.

I was twenty years old, and on my way home from work. I had gotten up before dawn that day to fix my car so it could get me to work, so I was unusually tired. I kept nodding off but was sure I could keep myself awake.

Bad decision. When my right front tire left the pavement, it jolted me awake.

I grew up being bored at church. When I later became serious about my faith and began training for ministry, I vowed to never let that happen in a place where I have something to do with it. Too many people stay away from church because too many churches are not worth going to.

Five active wildfires have ravished LA County. 10,000 homes and businesses have gone up in flames, causing billions in damage. 10 lives have been lost and 180,000 left homeless.

“Where is God in this?”

I’ve written a couple of summer blogs encouraging readers to get outside and enjoy the warm weather. But I’d like to encourage you to do the same thing in the cold.

In a Between The Lines episode about a week ago, Junior said, “We try to get outside in the winter as much as we can because it shortens the winter.” That’s a great point. Attempting to retreat from the cold and hiding inside makes you feel cooped up and the winter just feels longer.

2024 is soon to be over. For some of you, it was a great year. But for others, it was a year to forget.

Some of you went through a painful breakup this last year. Some of you lost your job. Others went through a friendship betrayal, family drama, personal defeats, and health challenges.

For some, this was a year that you want to put behind you.