Christian husband and dad, former pastor, current Academic Advisor, enjoy camping, carpentry, writing, driving...oh..and LOVE rainy days!
It’s funny how the end of life gets one thinking about how it all began. There is something brilliant about the way the Good Lord wired us to look back when things come to an end. We rehearse events and try to understand the “why” of it all. […]
Identity is a tricky thing to understand. We all want to be someone; to be important or to belong. We are all searching for our place in the world we live in. We take cues from those around us about how we behave or what we are good […]
When we are young we believe we have the world on a string. Everything and everyone we know on the end of a string as we fling them back and forth, in and out, like a yo-yo whenever and wherever we want. We think we are the center […]
What have I learned this year? What are the big take-aways that changed the way I view the world I live in? What has the Lord shown me about who I was, who I am, and who he wants me to be? These are the big questions most […]
I have never been a fan of the phrase, “Failure is not an option!” Or in the words of the wise and wrinkled puppet Yoda, “Do, or do not. There is no try.” With all due respect to little green men and Gene Kranz who was the flight […]
In 1995 I met someone. It was completely unexpected, and I can literally say time stood still for the first time in our lives. We were from different worlds but met at the same point in time and we both knew in that moment there was no looking […]
We always had a freshly cut Christmas tree. As a kid growing up on a farm with a lot of land in the U.P. of Michigan, trees were plentiful. Of course, the chosen tree was never perfect and was often had only one good side but that didn’t […]
Nestled beneath the branches of the big blue spruce were packages and presents of all shapes and sizes. Some were wrapped in shiny foil and others in brown paper tied with brightly colored ribbons of red and green and gold. Scattered among the gifts were baggies with tissue […]
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