by Robert Guffey | Jun 12, 2015 | Opinion
The end-of-school and the beginning of summer offer opportunities for new rhythms and routines for families with children at home. For most, it’s time to play, travel to visit family, make memories of family togetherness, and, for the wise, to be still and rest....
by Robert Guffey | Jun 4, 2015 | Opinion
I carried a briefcase with files, books and documents whenever I traveled to meetings away from home before my files resided in the digital cloud. Prominently paper-clipped inside my briefcase on a small piece of paper was a word: Soar. The word represented a goal, a...
by Robert Guffey | Dec 6, 2012 | Opinion
I think the old man’s words are some of the fiercest to be found in the Scripture, if you are a parent, that is, and especially if you are a mother. That he says them to Mary, Jesus’ mother, at what you think should have been a celebrative time, the day of...
by Robert Guffey | Oct 8, 2012 | Opinion
Our twin grandchildren, Aiden and Hannah, recently stayed over for a weekend while Mom Carissa and big sister Lily were away on retreat with the middle school church youth group. I had almost forgotten how verbal 2-year-olds can be, though you do have to do a little...
by Robert Guffey | Jul 23, 2012 | Opinion
The last time I went to a midnight showing of a movie I was in college. The movie was “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” not exactly classy stuff, but a communal experience and part of the innocuous seeking to fit in of late adolescence. My friends and I...
