Blogging Through the Seasons

Growing up, my perception was that God is distant. God was not involved in my day-to-day affairs. God was simply the God who lived up in heaven and looked down on humanity to record our good deeds and wrongdoings. With this view in mind, a big portion of my day was...

Gifts come in all sizes – little gifts, large gifts, medium-size, and every size in-between. No matter how young or how old you are, receiving gifts is a pleasurable thing. We learn to expect gifts early in life – birthday gifts, gifts when relatives come,...

I grew up in a large city where my local church participated in what we used to call, “Harvest Ingathering.” This was a period of door-to-door solicitation of funds for our international disaster aid program, now known as ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief...

When I was a child, my family and I would go to Camp Pendleton, a Marine Corps base, in San Diego, to visit at Christmas time. I loved going there to be able to spend time with the Marines and to hear their stories. One person in particular really helped shape my view...

I spent my childhood at Philippine Union College where my mother was in the faculty and was concurrently, food service director. We lived on campus in one of the faculty homes. The event of the year at that time was the annual play usually presented by academy...

I planted two grapefruit trees recently. Well, not the grown trees, but two seeds that promise to be trees. Little green shoots have pushed through the husk of the seed. Now what will happen? I could dig them up on a weekly basis to monitor their progress, but that...