Author: nanallen

2. DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?   ============================================ “Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?” “Wasting” a day is not a sin.  As a semi-retired guy, it’s kinda nice to occasionally sleep a little later, and then to take a nap midday.   But it troubles me, and […]

I have vowed to never write anything on this blog unless I had something of value to say. For the last year, I didn’t feel as though I had anything of worth to share. I have been writing, though. My latest book Fresh from the Table: A Devotional Journey Through Jesus’ Farewell Address has just […]

My brilliant and beautiful 17-year-old granddaughter raised an interesting question about life the other day. She wrote her thoughts in an essay for school. The subject is about passion versus purpose. With her permission I am including parts of her essay in this blog post. “Is my passion my purpose? The textbook definition of passion […]

I loved to swim when I was a kid. Pretty much every day in my preteen and early teen years I would walk or ride my bike to the community pool and stay until it closed. I even went early some days and took lifesaving classes just so I could be in the water.  This […]

Her name was Alice Barbara. Not Alice or Barbara, but Alice Barbara (maybe two words or just one, I don’t know). She wore ruby red lipstick and nail polish to match. She also sported corsages or glittery brooches on her taffeta dresses sometimes. Though I figured she was pretty old, her hair was jet black, […]

(Table Talk 2) The after dinner speech (at the Passover) started with a message about fear. Jesus said, “Do not let your heart be troubled.” (John 14:1a) Most translations use the word “troubled” here in this verse, but The Message paraphrase puts it this way. “Don’t let this rattle you.” In other words, don’t be […]

There is so much that we cannot comprehend right now, and unfortunately, it’s our nature to try to figure things out and control them. That doesn’t mean we should stop asking or seeking. In fact, it means that we should keep searching and discovering, realizing that we’ll only discern in faith what He wants us […]

For Michelle He Who Has Ears… In the Garden of Gethsemane there was an altercation at the arrest of Jesus. In defense of the Lord, Simon Peter drew his sword and cut off the right ear of one of the temple guards who served the High Priest. All gospels report this but only John names […]

For Michelle Have you ever built a sandcastle? If so, hold that thought. I’ll come back to it later. Here’s the afterlife story I’ll focus on from John 8: As he (Jesus) was speaking, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They […]

Afterlives, Chapter 2 For Michelle I was blessed with two sons. Though they’re adults now with families of their own, I still remember many times their childlike behavior was endearing. As little boys, they each had their heroes. Mickey Mouse, MacGyver, Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles, Luke Skywalker, and other unreal figures. Once when we went […]