Aug 7, 2012 | adventure, creation, Eugene C. Scott, Fun, God Sightings, happiness, Living Spiritually, priorities, Uncategorized, values |
By Eugene C. Scott Where do you go for rest and relaxation? Is it twelve miles from nowhere up a mountain in the Pecos Wilderness? I’m willing to bet most people don’t consider strapping on a 50 pound backpack and hauling it into the wilds a restful idea. I mean...
May 13, 2012 | Eugene C. Scott, Faith, God, God Sightings, love., Meaning, priorities, Uncategorized |
My mom passed away in 2003. I still miss her. She was a fierce, tiny woman, who loved to work and drank coffee all day long. She was a single mom before that garnered any sympathy, help, or understanding. She held the reins of our stampeding family with pioneer...
Aug 23, 2011 | belonging, Bible, bible conversation, Christianity, Community, creation, Eugene C. Scott, Excitement, Faith, God, God Sightings, mystery, pain, priorities, Uncategorized |
By Eugene C. Scott The desert had grown comfortable for Moses. After forty years of caring for Jethro’s sheep, he knew every bush and watering hole as well as he knew the seams and stitches of his old camel-hair robe. When he first arrived in Midian, a fugitive from...
Aug 16, 2011 | adventure, Art, authenticity, belonging, Bible, bible conversation, Books, Christianity, church, Community, creation, Eugene C. Scott, Excitement, friends, Fun, God, God Sightings, happiness, Jesus, loneliness, love., Meaning, priorities, Uncategorized |
By Eugene C. Scott Size matters. Especially to 12-year-old boys. That’s the year, 1969, I began to believe bigger was better. Every Friday night my best-friend Bruce and I would walk to a mall in our neighborhood to hang out. We always hoped there would be girls...
Jul 12, 2011 | adventure, Art, authenticity, belonging, Bible, bible conversation, care, Christianity, creation, Eugene C. Scott, fishing, friends, Fun, God, God Sightings, grace, happiness, Jesus, love., Meaning, mystery, ordinary, priorities, Uncategorized |
By Eugene C. Scott We are enamored with slogans. If it can’t be said in three to seven words, seems it ain’t worth saying. Take for example the saying, “Everything happens for a reason.” This saying is usually uttered during some disappointing or tragic event. But...
May 3, 2011 | authenticity, belonging, Bible, bible conversation, care, Community, Eugene C. Scott, friends, God, God Sightings, happiness, Jesus, loneliness, love., priorities, together, Uncategorized |
By Eugene C. Scott Isolation The Illinois sky was painful, gray, close, oppressive. The few of us standing on the hill in the cemetery were all tucked into our coats and scarves against the winter wind. He, the man we were gathered around, was tucked against that same...
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