by Barry Creamer | Sep 1, 2021 | Devotionals
My mother has been making homemade cinnamon rolls since I was a small child—I mean get-up-at-2am-mix-roll-cut-bake-ice-from-scratch cinnamon rolls to die for. She taught me only one part of that process: how to make the powdered sugar icing. (I’m sure she would have...
by Barry Creamer | Aug 24, 2021 | Devotionals
Near Terlingua, TX, cradling the Rio Grande, is a deep, narrow, rock-faced canyon, Santa Elena. Our kids suggested we visit it while we were celebrating our 36th anniversary with stays in the Texas desert and hill country. High waters from recent rains kept us from...
by Barry Creamer | Aug 17, 2021 | Devotionals
I attempted a feat Sunday: to ride from Paris to Detroit and back in a single afternoon. Unfortunately, the trail ended abruptly west of Detroit, just east of Blossom (Texas, of course). So I turned my bike around and rode back in order make it on time to the evening...
by Barry Creamer | Aug 17, 2021 | Devotionals
Watching the sky has taught me a lot about the earth. When I put my standard eyepiece in the telescope and center it on the brightest object in the night sky, it takes the moon about 60 seconds to escape my view on its inexorable march westward—one minute, and moving...
by Barry Creamer | Aug 17, 2021 | Devotionals
Fear is irrational. Spielberg’s Jaws came out the year I finished 6th grade. The knowledge that we had no sharks in our back yard pool did nothing to relax the grip tightening around my spine as soon as the water enveloped my body. Nope. No night swims that summer....
