Deep Thoughts

Deep Thought: I think  the best Thanksgiving I ever had was the one where we didn’t even have a turkey. Mom and Dad sat us kids down and explained that business hadn’t been good at Dad’s store, so we couldn’t afford a turkey. We had vegetables and bread and pie, and it was just fine.
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Sorry about the absence, but I got busy. I haven’t finished my story of Nehemiah and the bus ministry and the unruly kids in kids church. So let’s pick it back up again, shall we?
Deep Thought: Here’s a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don’t know anybody: First, take out [...]

Deep Thought: I remember how my great-uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat that I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no [...]

Deep Thought: Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let’s say you’re an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for pieces of moon rock, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call [...]

Deep thought: Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don’t care who hears me, because I am beautiful.
It was the movie Dangerous Minds, not to be confused with the movie Beautiful Minds, which is a good movie, [...]

Deep Thought: If you are ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don’t start thinking of what other words have “under” in them, because that’s probably the first sign of jungle madness.
I think I had jungle madness when, in Monday’s post, I said I would continue the story the next day. What [...]

Deep Thought: As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
The other day I thought back to when we worked in a ministry in Central FL, Darlene [...]

Deep Thought: He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, “Dust to dust,” some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his [...]

Deep Thought: When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns.
People make a big deal about what you call things. Okay, so [...]

Deep Thought: If I ever get really rich, I hope I’m not really mean to people like I am now.
I don’t know if I’d make a good rich person. Don’t get me wrong, I think I would be good at spending money. I think I would be pretty good at eating at nice restaurants and [...]