by Charles Gumm | Jan 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
One rainy day during the American Revolutionary War, George Washington rode up to a group of soldiers attempting to raise a wooden beam to a high position. The corporal in charge was shouting encouragement, but the soldiers couldn’t get the beam in position. After...
by Charles Gumm | Jan 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Seeing God – that is an urgent and strong wish of many people. “If only God would come to me and let me see him, touch him so that I could know for sure he existed. Then I could believe,” they sigh. There is something in all of us which identifies with such...
by Charles Gumm | Jan 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Are you ready to make a public declaration of what is going to govern your life in 2022? That’s an intimidating question. But an important one. With all the uncertainty of the past few years we’ve settled into a “take each day as it comes” way of looking at life....
by Charles Gumm | Dec 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Sometimes clichés say it all. It is certainly the case regarding “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing” and Christmas. Even during a Christmas season that has slowed us down with a tenaciously stubborn pandemic and an irritating supply chain...
by Charles Gumm | Dec 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Most people throughout the world would love to give peace a chance. The complicating question is: ”Peace at what cost?” Every war in history could have been avoided, but each situation would have required that one nation or the other, or both, would have had to give...
by Charles Gumm | Dec 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
The following quote appeared in The New York Times this past week: “The United States surgeon general on Tuesday warned that young people are facing ‘devastating’ mental health effects as a result of the...
by Charles Gumm | Dec 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Usually when we come across the word “counterintuitive” it has the sense of a person doing something that not only doesn’t make sense, but has very negative consequences on their life. We would very much rather be intuitive people, doing those things which make sense...
by Charles Gumm | Nov 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
With the gut-wrenching news of the new Omicron variant, we need some good news! And good news it is. In fact, some would say it is the best news ever: Jesus is coming back! Don’t roll your eyes, it is the best news. Think about it, if Jesus doesn’t come back, what do...
by Charles Gumm | Nov 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
With a knife, hammer and some time, it would be possible to force the square peg into the round hole pictured above, but it certainly wouldn’t come close to being like the round pegs in the round holes surrounding it. But that’s the way life is sometimes. We’re...
by Charles Gumm | Nov 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
The dictionary defines the word lynchpin as “the person or thing that serves as the essential element in a complicated or delicate structure – the one thing that holds everything together”. You’ve probably had “lynchpin” experiences in your life. It might have been a...
