An Ode to Opening Day

March 27, 2025 / Greg Asimakoupoulos

**There’s no place like Wrigley Field to celebrate Opening Day!**

A bat, some spikes,
A ball and glove.
I guess you know
what game I love.
With outs and innings,
hits and runs,
it’s based on going home.

And home is where
I learned to play
what brought me joy
most every day.
To have a catch
with my dear dad
meant everything to me.

A brand new season
starts today.
A field of dreams
where my hopes play
while focused on a playoff run
and baseball in the fall.

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Memories of Lucerne: A Year Later

March 21, 2025March 15, 2025 / Greg Asimakoupoulos

**The Wounded Lion Monument in Lucerne Switzerland**

A year ago, I took my turn
to preach to ex-pats in Lucerne
and in the process fell in love
with Central Switzerland.

The friends we made (like family)
let down their guard and helped us see
that honest sharing brings us close
and binds our hearts as one.

The Wounded Lion’s weeping face
inspired thoughts of haunting grace
that Lewis knew in Narnia
as Aslan gave His life.

The old walled city with its charm
reminded me that no grave harm
befalls the one who is hemmed in
by God’s protective care.

And Mount Pilatus soaring high
became a sermon in the sky.
A constant source of towering strength
is God to Whom we gaze.

Yes, on this anniversary
my heart is full as it can be.
Our Swiss adventure proved to be
a dreamer’s dream come true.

It’s Just a Matter of Time!

March 14, 2025March 8, 2025 / Greg Asimakoupoulos

We lose an hour,
then we gain.
This time-change thing
is such a pain.
Springing forward,
falling back,
yet time flies either way.

Our years of youth
have long since flown.
We blinked
and our babies are full-grown.
The sand grains
in our hour-glass
give way to gravity.

We simply
can’t control the time.
And that’s the reason
for this rhyme.
Life’s currency
is ours to spend.
It’s how we spend
that counts!

Oh, the Places I Will Go!

March 7, 2025March 5, 2025 / Greg Asimakoupoulos

**This week students across America celebrate the poetry of Dr. Seuss**

Oh, the places I will go
to celebrate what we all know.
That Dr. Seuss makes reading fun
for kids both young and old.

And so I travel as “The Cat”
to serve up breakfast where I’m at.
Green eggs and ham’s my specialty.
It fills kids’ hearts with joy!

But you, too, have the means to be
a source of joy through what folks see.
Just wear a smile on your face
and be a kid at heart.

An Egg-ceptional Crisis

February 28, 2025February 26, 2025 / Greg Asimakoupoulos

**Have you noticed that eggs are in the news? And that’s no yoke!**

We need them for breakfast,
for cookies and cakes.
Without them a souffle won’t rise.
We need them for ice cream
and Mandarin soup.
Their worth is not based on their size.

Yet without them,
we face an egg-ceptional crisis.
We hoped the temporary shortage
would be over-easy.
But this hard-boiled dilemma
isn’t going away quickly.
Feeling fried trying to find solutions,
we are scrambling for available cartons.
We beat it to our local grocery store
when what we’ve come to count on
is in short supply.
We long for a return to normal.
In the meantime, we find ourselves
willing to poach another’s reserves.

In times like these,
envy stalks our contentment.
And when we claim otherwise,
we are caught in an omelet of our own making
with egg all over our face.

Guilty as charged, Lord.
When what we rely on for convenience
isn’t readily available,
we tend to fixate on what others have
instead of being grateful for what is already ours.
Teach us to be sunny-side-up blessing counters.
Use this current situation
to hatch a spirit of gratitude within us.