Chaplains Corner
Expectation management. Aug 23
“See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.” Exodus 23:20 These past two weeks have been traveling hell for me. I will spare you the details and summarize it this way: delays, cancellations, and...
America has a loneliness epidemic – May 2023
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another… Hebrews 10:24-25 U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy announced that America has a loneliness...
Be careful about looking back too long. You might get stuck. Apr 2023
But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.Genesis 19:26 Recently, I visited my family’s coastal hometown in South Georgia and while there I stopped by my grandparents’ house. Over the years, I have driven by the house and looked at it, but I have not...
Renew your mind. March 2023
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 Currently in the Christian faith, we are in a season known as...
Happy New Year
Philippians 3:13-14 “…I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize…” Happy New Year! Typically, around this time of year many set...
Happy Holidays! – Dec 2022
Hebrews 11:1 (King James Version) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The holiday season is upon us, and I have already overplayed the Temptations’ infamous gospel version of Silent Night! I have always loved this time of...
Uncancelled – Nov 2022
We are very quick to cancel people. Even celebrities that died long ago are not safe. Cancel culture is nothing new. There is a story about a man named Zacchaeus who lived in a Palestinian city called Jericho around 30 C.E. Zacchaeus was a wealthy tax collector; the...
One Body – Oct 2022
1 Corinthians 12:25-26 (New King James Version) 25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members...
Commitment to Excellence and the Fair Treatment of All
By Lieutenant Commander R. Kamille Williams, U.S. Navy | September 19, 2022 “I am committed to excellence and the fair treatment of all.” That is the last line of the Sailor’s Creed. The word creed is from the Latin word credo which means “I believe.” The Sailor’s...
We cannot allow our egos to get so big that we think we always must be at the top of everything – September 2022
Luke 14: 11 11 For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.” If you’ve ever been on a ship, then you may know there is a space called the wardroom, or the officer’s mess. In the wardroom, typically there is one long...
While self-improvement and being a reflection of one’s best self is very important, there has to be a balance. – October 2019
Hurricane Dorian has decimated the Bahama islands and is on its way to the eastern coastline. Sep 2019
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