The Sunday Sermonette
The Sunday Sermonette – Writing Home.
The year was 1943. After three years of undefeated glory in one battle after another, the fortunes of the once unstoppable Axis forces of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan were coming to an end. Although the…
The Sunday Sermonette – Mediocrity.
Are you a person of immediate action but without an ultimate purpose? Are you within sight of victory, or have you settled for mediocrity? Ponder this and go forth. (Originally posted December 11, 2022)
The Sunday Sermonette – The Real Reason?
If you know, you know. Perhaps someone needs to let Amazon know. Ponder this and go forth.
The Sunday Sermonette – Kudzu, A Metaphor for Life.
One summer long ago, my sweet Granny and I piled into her old 1956 Buick Special and rode to Vossburg, Mississippi, to visit my Great-Great-Aunt Lucile. She lived on a vast farm with her husband and son, which…
The Sunday Sermonette – A Promise Broken. A Promise Kept.
Promises are delicate threads that weave our lives together with high-octane words. Promises kept are uplifting, filling us with a sense of love and hope. But broken promises are destructive, leaving behind shards of shattered dreams. History is…
The Sunday Sermonette – Where’s Weston? Where’s God?
In the Fall of 2005, my dear friends Fred and Jennifer Signs invited me to join them and their three-year-old son, Weston, for a respite from Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic destruction. And what better place to do so than Disney’s…
The Sunday Sermonette – Two Ladies I Know.
My love of poetry began in the 1st grade at Biloxi’s Fernwood Elementary School. For a talent show, I ran around the stage in a boy’s nightgown and nightcap, holding a candle made from two toilet tissue rolls painted white…
The Sunday Sermonette – Suffering + Prayer = Friendship.
The Sunday Sermonette. Suffering + Prayer = Friendship. I was at the gym last week, running nowhere on the treadmill, lickety split! The telly was on, and as I raced along, I could not help but be saddened by the…
The Sunday Sermonette – A Mansion Over The Hilltop.
In the spring of 1965, Dad, Mom, and I loaded up the family Comet, with its cat-eye taillights, and headed north to Jackson. We tuned left onto the Natchez Trace Parkway and motored west and back in time to Natchez,…
The Sunday Sermonette – There’s Good News Tonight!
The first years of World War II went badly for the Allies. London was decimated by the Blitz. Singapore and the Philippines fell to the Japanese. One by one, European countries were crushed by the Nazi onslaught. And America…
The Sunday Sermonette – A Tale of Two Plumbs.
While shopping at Rouses last week, I spotted plums in the Produce Department. They were the last of the summer plums and were ripening fast. I filled a bag with them, their sweet ripeness temping my senses. That sweetness triggered…
The Sunday Sermonette – God’s Song!
Have you ever heard a song that sticks in your mind, and you go singing it throughout the day? Hopefully, it puts a smile on your face and a skip in your step. But there’s an inner song, deep within…