My wife and I attended a life celebration service for a dear friend last night. It was held on her birthday and of course, Christmas is just days away which doubled the pain of her leaving us. She was just 56 and was sweet as she could be and loved the Lord with all her heart. It was unusually cold, cloudy, and rainy for the keys last night, and I suppose it was fitting for the circumstance . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2021/12/dont-make-the-same-mistake-twice/

I was conversing with a friend recently who could be defined as a “party animal”. He attends more parties than anyone I know, and in the Christmas season, it is non-stop. I have harped at him concerning his drinking which he seems to do night after night. He claims he has cut back on his drinking, but every few days or so I see him pictured on Facebook at another party with another half-empty glass of wine in his hand. It is so frequent a half-empty wine glass has begun to look like an appendage has grown into his hand . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2021/12/stumbling-along/

In the year 2000 I received the following from a reader: A wealthy widower and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2021/12/saving-the-best-for-first/

Recently a spate of my newer friends have found out about my book, Miracle on Luckie Street, and have begun reading it and/or have watched the video of my testimony given at all three services at First Baptist Church Orlando several years ago . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2021/12/fairlie-luckie/

Yesterday I received some wonderful news concerning my boat woes. Most regular readers know that upon returning home from the Bahamas the other day I lost two engines. They were getting very old, and I’ve fished them hard for many years and have been concerned for some time that they might be reaching the end of the line. They now need major expensive repairs to fix them, even if I could find the necessary parts to do so in this Biden age of shortages . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2021/12/friends-galore/

I began writing Words for the Day five times per week in 1998. At first, I did not have a program that would keep up with subscribes and unsubscribes but convinced one of my programmers to write one for me in his spare time. This was quite the feat because he was an atheist and despite a relentless effort on my part to lead him to Christ he still is . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2021/12/words-for-the-day-2/

I went to a Christmas party in our neighborhood last night. It got dorky in the end when they played a game of trivia. The theme for the trivia was Christmas and it was all about Santa Claus, with questions about who played the bad Santa in a movie, how many reindeer in Santa’s sleigh, what kind of “spirits” are mixed in some Christmas celebration drink, what is the main ingredient in ginger cookies, and so on . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2021/12/christmas-grim/

Yesterday I drove for six hours to see an eye doctor and get back home. I waited an hour and a half in his waiting room only to have him tell me I needed to see a specialist because my ailment is beyond his expertise. Wat? I have all but lost my vision at night and dark situations such as restaurants, closets, etc. and was hopeful that something could be done . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2021/12/speeding-meteor-or-slow-moving-sloth/

Smash and grab robberies, racism, soaring inflation, open borders, murder rate at an all-time high, China threatening Taiwan, Iran threatening Israel, Russia threatening Ukraine, political polarization, tornadoes, government mandates, propagandized education, mind-boggling national debt, homosexuality dominating every facet of society, inept leadership, abortion – It’s enough to make one gag and/or go nutty . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2021/12/what-can-we-do/

Yesterday I went to the Bahamas for a day trip leaving two hours before dawn. The fishing was spectacular, and we caught all the big wahoo we wanted. We encountered several big sharks that had breakfast on us and one of them, (an 8-foot bull shark), got accidentally foul hooked in his dorsal fin when he attacked on of the fish we were reeling in . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/index.php/2021/12/sparrows-and-such/