Get moving, five minutes at a time
I struggle with managing my time. It seems I always have. Some days are better than others; however, other days are far worse than others. What about you? Do you need an extra push to begin a project...
View ArticleAre you ready to laugh?
“I had no idea I could do what I do now as a full-time job,” Ron Culberson, author and motivational speaker, says. As with most of us, this speaker, author, and humorist is living a life he once found...
View ArticleShayne Looper: The story behind the star of Bethlehem
The next big holiday on the church calendar is Epiphany, which is celebrated on Jan. 6, 12 days after Christmas. At Epiphany, the church recalls the visit of the magi, commonly referred to as “wise...
View ArticleBill Tinsley: Invest in your world
Everyone, it seems, is thinking about investments, especially since the stock market started December with its worst performance since the Great Depression. When I was young, I didn’t think much about...
View ArticleSuzette Martinez Standring: A New Year’s thought: Become, don’t overcome
In 2019, I hope to “become” not to “overcome.” To me, becoming is about awareness and inner change, while overcoming feels like a grinding discipline of must and should. Yet there is so much to...
View ArticleShayne Looper: Don’t make a resolution, make a habit
The bad news is, as William James put it, “All our life … is but a mass of habits.” It is also the good news. Of course, our habits can dig a rut from which we might never emerge, but they can also...
View ArticleBill Tinsley: What are we missing?
In a similar day to our own, the prophet Habakkuk posed the following questions to God, “Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds....
View ArticleSusan Sparks: Taking down the tree
There is one holiday ritual I really hate: taking down the tree. It’s a sad job, as it marks the end of the season. It’s also messy. Dragging out a month-old, dried-up balsam means getting sticky...
View ArticlePhilip Demery Stevens Obituary
Philip Demery Stevens, age 75, of Wewahitchka, FL passed away October 7, 2018. He was born to Wilson and Gertrude Stevens. He served his country honorably in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1967 attaining...
View ArticleJackie Spann Obituary
Jackie Spann, 84, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, January 4, 2019 in Warner Robins, GA. Jackie was born on December 10, 1934 in Macon, Georgia to the late Charles Edwards and Pearl...
View ArticleRaymouth Shirley Nixon Obituary
Mrs. Raymouth Shirley Nixon, age 81, of White City, FL passed away Wednesday, January 2, 2019 in Panama City, FL. Shirley was born on January 27, 1937 in Franklin County to Ernest and Caroline...
View ArticleClair Phillips Roberson Obituary
Clair Phillips Roberson passed away peaceably after a short illness on January 7, 2019 at Halifax Hospice Care Center in Orange City, Florida. She had been temporarily relocated to central Florida...
View ArticleDorothy Louise Matlock Obituary
Dorothy Louise Matlock, age 79, of Wewahitchka, FL passed away Wednesday, January 2, 2019, in Panama City, FL. Dorothy was born in Port St Joe, FL on September 26, 1939 to Willie and Minnie (Damphier)...
View ArticleStuff is stuff
Emptying my dishwasher and putting my plates,glasses and silverware away.I realize stuff is more than stufffor those who lost everything. Pots and pans are a blessing.Stuff that's a necessity....
View ArticleBetty Temple Godfrey Obituary
Betty Temple Godfrey (Nanny), 93, passed into the presence of her savior on December 31, 2018 at Capital Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee, FL after a brief illness. Betty was born February 1,...
View ArticleA radical way to handle temptation in the New Year
How would you rate your “joy level” for 2018? Did your choices throughout the year (specifically behavior-related) bring an abundance of joy or way too many regrets? I hope you’re among those in the...
View ArticleEpiscopal Presiding Bishop to visit Panama City, Port St. Joe churches
The Right Reverend Russell Kendrick, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast, will host the Most Reverend Michael Bruce Curry, presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church,...
View ArticleIn Good Faith: New Year, same old you
So, how are your New Year’s resolutions going? Have you greeted 2019 with steely resolve or have you abandoned all hope in a bitter trail of champagne-soaked tears? Perhaps it’s somewhere between these...
View ArticleShayne Looper: The Book of Life in the Book of Revelation
A Christian lectionary is a book or list of selected Scripture readings for corporate or personal worship. Lectionaries include something like a “Daily Office,” which provides suggested daily Bible...
View ArticleBill Tinsley: Resurrection body
I took off my gloves the other day and laid them on the kitchen cabinet. I had been outside watching the sun rise, as is my habit, even though the temperature was in the teens. I have had these gloves...
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