Bristol Epistle

As I write these words, on a day that will feel like 100 plus degrees, I am 3 days from completing my 82nd year on this earth. My son completed his 55th year yesterday. I am trying to keep my body in good shape but it is impossible to turn the clock back. My daughter, who will finish her 53rd year in August, and her husband just moved to a rural mountainous area in Colorado that sits at 7,500 feet above sea level. It is beyond beautiful. They love it, but for now they can se

As a follower of Jesus, I rejoice this Easter Sunday morning that our Lord is in fact alive. Not just in a spiritual sense, but as an awesome component of reality in our broken and wayward world. My sweet wife monitors Facebook, and this morning she shared the below post with me. I do not know the author, but he posts under the title Andy Films and Hikes. I thank the Lord for this dear brother, for his amazing Easter message. I am not Roman Catholic but urge everyone to list

Now that I am well into my 82nd year on this planet, it is becoming more of a challenge to navigate on computers, recall passwords, and keep up with hundreds of unsolicited solicitations that bombard my email box and text message box like incoming drones and missiles in the Middle East and Ukraine. I want to give a shoutout to my old friend Joe Skolnik for gently reminding me to keep posting to this blog site. It is always an encouragement to know that there are some out ther