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Is Fun a Major Value in My Life

 D o you enjoy spending your vacation traveling miles and miles visiting supporting churches and family instead of going camping, or doing something else fun?  This was the question someone asked me. Not quite in those words, but in the end that was what he wanted to know. I do enjoy relaxing and having fun; but, having said that, I have rarely taken a vacation in the sense of going somewhere and spending several days or a whole week doing nothing but having fun. Having grown up on the mission field, our vacations were spent visiting family and supporters. Because finances were always tight, this happened every three or four years.   The years in between these trips we didn’t have vacation. There was always so much to do that even taking time off every three or four years was hard to squeeze into my parent’s schedule. I do remember that a few times, my parents splurged and took us somewhere for fun.   We did go out of the way one year to visit the Grand Canyon ...
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Fearing Death

 Are we fearing for our lives? If we look at Scripture, God assures us that our life is short – even for Christians. “Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die.” (Psalm 103:15, NLT) This past week my sister-in-law passed away at the age of sixty-one. As a family it seemed like she died too young. My son passed away at the age of twenty-eight -- a great tragedy and far too young. At least, it seemed so to us. My sister went to be with the Lord at the age of four and a half years. What can we say? Each of these deaths seem untimely. People should grow to an old age! This, however, is really not true. God already has our days numbered from the day we are born. When I took my son in my arms for the first time on the day he was born, I never imagined that I would only enjoy him for twenty-eight years. When his daughter was born, nobody imagined that she would only enjoy her daddy for six weeks. God, on the other hand, was not taken by surprise. For the g...
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Why I Celebrate Life and Not the Day of the Dead

Do I attack or propose? We are getting to those dates in which Christians begin to worry about the celebration of Halloween and the day of the dead.   The question we must ask ourselves is: Do we as Christians take part in cultural traditions and do we permit our children to have a part in them. The question is a good one and the answer is so necessary because the pressure to take part is stronger and stronger. To begin with let us consider the media and the educational system that is informing us about the day of the dead.   They tell us it is an ancestral tradition and that we as Mexicans should therefore celebrate it.   At the same time these entities criticize the celebration of Halloween because it is an imported and very commercialized tradition, and we as Mexicans should keep to our cultural roots. On the one hand they are right that those things that are distinctive of the Mexican culture might be being lost in the globalization that we are facing in o...
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