by jakeowensby | Apr 26, 2019 | John 20:19-31
“You have to take the bad with the good.” That’s how my mom usually responded to my kvetching about my circumstances. When I was disappointed, flabbergasted, outraged, or frustrated, those words never failed to infuriate me. What I heard her saying was, “Calm down.”...
by jakeowensby | Mar 15, 2019 | Luke 13:31-35
Early most mornings my wife Joy, our dog Gracie, and I leave our neighborhood by foot to walk among the longleaf pines of the Kisatchie National Forest. Onyx lives at the next to the last house before we hit the winding, two-lane road that takes us into the woods. Our...
by jakeowensby | Jan 25, 2019 | Luke 4:14-21
I have said that my dog Gracie is stubborn. But that’s not accurate. She’s determined. Inside the house, she obeys every command. In fact, she responds to a large vocabulary. She knows what an atlatl is (we use it to throw her ball), she heads for the car when I...
by jakeowensby | Nov 30, 2018 | Luke 21:25-36
Rushing to make my connecting flight in the Atlanta airport, I focused my energies on working my way around and between slow-moving fellow travelers. Snatches of conversation, the mayor’s recorded welcome-to-Atlanta message, and the boarding announcements from each...
by jakeowensby | Nov 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
In 2017 pollsters asked Americans what we feared most. Apparently, spiders did not make the list. In my book, that proves that Americans lie. Dying barely made the top 50, trailing fear of reptiles (ranked 44) and sharks (41). Pollution of the air, of drinking water,...
