Midweek Musing 11-5-25 Recently as the weather got cooler and the autumn season fully settled in, I made a statement outside in the morning car rider line that one of our young teachers swore they had never heard. I said, “Boy, I love this weather; lets me know it’s almost Hog Killing Time .” They quickly asked what “Hog killing time was?” I probably told them way more than they wanted to know! But in case you too aren’t familiar with the term. Hog-killing time happened in th

“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.” As we’ve spent time with and struggled through each line of the 23rd Psalm, I hope we’ve realized that it’s more than a poem—it’s (to put it in religious terms) a pilgrimage. We’ve wandered the hills and valleys, followed the Shepherd beside still waters, and sat down at the table of grace. Now the psalmist ends not in exhaustion but in confidenc