Just how much has changed in the past six weeks became apparent to me once again, this time in a doctor’s office. I was seeing my infectious disease specialist, Dr. Parker, about the infection from my recent Achilles tendon surgery. However, I was just as intent on quizzing him about what he recommended I do […]
It’s Spring. And like the rest of America during the Covid-19 crisis, we’re stuck at home. And if you’re my wife, that means it’s time for Spring cleaning! I’ve resisted the urge, but Jeanie’s whirlwind of cleaning ambitions motivated me to clean out my file cabinet. I came to a file overflowing with various oddly […]
“I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind” (Ecclesiastes 4:4). “You’re So Vain” is the title of a hit song of the ‘70s by singer Carly Simon. It depicts her evaluation of […]
As I’ve mentioned on a number of occasions, God has apparently called me to be a missionary to the medical community in Reno. Due to my frequent visits for both emergency and chronic medical conditions, I have repeated opportunities to share the Gospel with medical personnel in our city. I have now shared my Covid-19 […]
The unthinkable happened this morning. We ran out of toilet paper. The thought is sobering enough, but before your imagination runs wild, let me assure you that the crisis was averted. First, it was an epidemic (in two bathrooms only), and not a pandemic (the third bathroom had some). And Jeanie did come to my […]
The unthinkable has happened. One hundred million Americans are on lockdown—ordered to stay home. Fifty-five million American school children are at home—as states have cancelled classes for who knows how long. Non-essential businesses are shuttered everywhere. All mass gatherings have been cancelled or postponed—even, God forbid, sporting spectaculars such as March Madness and the 2020 […]
It was a different Sunday morning in the Wallace household. I was sitting at the breakfast table about the time we would normally be greeting each other before morning service. Being the spiritual leader that I am, I decided to encourage Jeanie and Abby by reading a CNN article about the most optimistic best-case scenarios […]
Jeanie and I had a common thought this past week. It occurred to each of us independently that we ought to watch the 1981 Oscar Award-Winning Film of the Year “Chariots of Fire” again. We had seen it the first time in a movie theater in Lincoln, Nebraska while we were still dating . . […]
It was what has now become another typical Sunday night on American Idol. What had once been a night when American families would gather to enjoy good, wholesome TV, where right was right and wrong was wrong and there was rarely any confusion between the two, has now become an insult to and an assault […]
“For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12). I was so excited to hear that at least a couple […]