Kevin LaRose

DAY 15From the devotional book Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner “x + y = z. If you know the value of one of the letters, you know something. If you know the value of two, you can probably figure out the whole thing. If you don’t know the value of any, you don’t know much. […]

DAY 14From the devotional book Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner “ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, or A.A., is the name of a group of men and women who acknowledge that addiction to alcohol is ruining their lives. Their purpose in coming together is to give it up and help others do the same. They realize they can’t pull […]

DAY 13From the devotional book Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner “WHEREAS JUST ABOUT EVERYBODY has a cross to bear, King Ahab had two. One cross was the prophet Elijah. If, generally speaking, a prophet to a king was like ants at a picnic, Elijah was like a swarm of bees. The other cross was his […]

Many of you are probably aware that I am currently writing in two different places. I write here on WordPress, of course, and recently I created another writing account on Substack, Ramblings and Rumblings. Those of you who recognize that title have been with me for quite a while. I’ve been trying to figure out […]

DAY 12From the devotional book Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner “THERE’S SOMETHING A LITTLE SAD about seeing anybody for the last time, even somebody you were never particularly crazy about to begin with. Agrippa, for instance. He was the last of the Herods, and after him that rather unsavory dynasty came to an end. When […]

DAY 11From the devotional book Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner “AN AGNOSTIC IS SOMEBODY who doesn’t know for sure whether there really is a God. That is some people all of the time and all people some of the time. There are some agnostics who don’t know simply because they’ve never taken pains to try […]

DAY 10From the devotional book Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner “WHEN YOU HIT SIXTY or so, you start having a new feeling about your own generation. Like you, they can remember the Trilon and Perisphere, Lum and Abner, ancient Civil War veterans riding in open cars at the rear of Memorial Day parades, the Lindbergh […]

DAY 9From the devotional book Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner “ACCORDING TO THE PROPHET SAMUEL, God wanted King Saul to wipe out every last one of the Amalekites–not just the men, but the women and children, the babies and the residents of the old folks home. When he heard that Saul had decided to spare […]

DAY 8From the devotional book Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner “THE HOUSE LIGHTS GO OFF and the footlights come on. Even the chattiest stop chattering as they wait in darkness for the curtain to rise. In the orchestra pit, the violin bows are poised. The conductor has raised the baton. In the silence of a […]

DAY 7From the devotional book Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner “THE ANCIENT DRUIDS are said to have taken a special interest in in-between things like mistletoe, which is neither quite a plant nor quite a tree, and mist, which is neither quite rain nor quite air, and dreams, which are neither quite waking nor quite […]

DAY 6From the devotional book BeyondWords by frederick Buechner “HE LET THE Times fall to the carpet beside him. It was the usual recital–a new tax plan, the danger of oral contraceptives to women over forty, the mayor’s special committee on child abuse. He pushed his glasses back on his forehead and with his thumb […]

Note When I started this project it was my intent to post a devotional a day, as they are shown in the book Beyond Words. However, yesterday life happened, and I wasn’t able to post Day 5. So here is Day 5, a day late. I hope I won’t have to do this very often, […]

DAY 4Taken from the devotional book Beyond Words by Frederick Buechner “IF A SCHLEMIEL is a person who goes through life spilling soup on people and a schlemozzle is the one it keeps getting spilled on, then Abraham was a schlemozzle. It all began when God told him to go to the land of Canaan, […]

DAY 3 SPEAKING AGAINST ABORTION, someone has said, “No one should be denied access to the great feast of life,” to which the rebuttal, obviously enough, is that life isn’t much of a feast for children born to people who don’t want them or can’t afford them or are one way or another incapable of […]

DAY 2 WHEN KING DAVID was nearing the end of his days, not even his electric blanket could fend off the ominous chill he felt rising in his bones. The fires of life were all but out, and in an effort to rekindle them for the old man and at the same time preserve their […]