Dear MSBC, I heard a story a number of years ago that I think is very applicable to us all during the Christmas season. One version of the account is as follows: A customs officer observes a truck pulling up at the border. Suspicious, he orders the driver out and searches the vehicle. He pulls off the panels, bumpers, and wheel cases but finds not a single scrap of contraband, whereupon, still suspicious but at…
Dear MSBC, Well, it is election time once again, and the stakes this year could not be higher for our country’s welfare. There are a lot of societal ills surrounding us in need of conscientious solution. We continue to live amid the Covid-19 pandemic that has caused social distancing, stifled the US economy, taken numerous lives, infected many others, and frustrated virtually everyone else. In addition to the problems associated with Covid-19, historical monuments continue…
Dear MSBC, Victoria Price is an investigative TV reporter for WFLA, an NBC affiliate station, in Tampa, Florida. I suspect you have never heard of her, but in June of this year she received an email after appearing on air. Interestingly, the email was not like other emails she had received previously with comments related to her news stories, but rather with an urgent suggestion to seek her doctor for medical attention. The email that…
Dear MSBC, I suppose we all have practices or idiosyncrasies that we engage in, either as individuals or as family units, that might appear odd or quirky to others outside of our immediate circles of engagement. For example, my family and I like to spread peanut butter on pancakes. You might identify with that or think it gross and would never even consider doing such. I think putting pineapple on pizza is absolutely disgusting, whereas…
Dear MSBC, At times we all must face difficulties, disappointments, discouragement, and dead ends as well as have to deal with hurts, habits, hang-ups, and heartaches. When these occur, sometimes in bunches, and seemingly relentlessly, we can be tempted to throw our hands up, give up, and give in to our ever-present, ever-pressing opponent called life. If there ever was a man who had to deal with life in the raw and from whom we…
