I’m enjoying the big pause. There is nothing going on, no places to be, not even church responsibilities to attend to. This is unprecedented in my lifetime. I have dreamed of creating this scenario-indeed, there was a year or two when I felt family life spiraling out of control, and I made proclamations about “no…
I exit my car at the ballet school, gather my next hour distractions from the back seat, and absent-mindedly hit the lock button on the car door before I stride into the cross walk. There’s a mom and a daughter standing nearby at the bottom of a hill-nothing to notice really. And then I hear…
I just rode to the top of this mountain. On a mountain bike. By myself. And when I say by myself, I mean BY MYSELF. When I got to the saddle about a mile up, the other three riders on the trail went right and I went left. I never saw another soul until I…
My brother wrote ‘Tire Mercies’ to share on my blog…thank you, Pete.
It’s January 28, 2017. I feel like West Alton, Missouri where the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers link arms to make the long journey to the Gulf of Mexico. There’s a state park there in order for us to witness nature taking charge and marching south. I like the idea of confluence. It’s two or more…
There’s a crack in everything…that’s how the light gets in…
For you know we never do people good by lecturing; only by living their lives with them, and helping a little here and a little there to make them better. -What Katy Did, p. 141 If I took nothing else from this moralizing tale…let it be this…a lecture is no good. I have given all…
Faith was no escape hatch from the power of evil men; true faith often placed one directly in the grip of evil. Hadn’t Jesus Himself provided a demonstration of this truth? -Radical Integrity, p. 161 I really like biography. I like to peek into someone else’s existence to see how they negotiated mortality. It’s…
I just finished The Shack by Wm. Paul Young. This is one of those books that kept cropping up in different conversations over the course of a year. I think I jotted it down here and there two or three times before I added it to my summer reading list and went to the library…
I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. –William Lyon Phelps Hi there. I love to read. However, if you were to track my activities over the last decade, you would find plenty of evidence to convict me to the contrary. It’s been awful! I…
Stand Still 