I visited my good friend Joey this past week. His church offices are in a converted house, on a large lot surrounded by woods. During a leadership meeting Joey noticed a deer out the window. He asked to be excused and walked up to his office – a converted bedroom. He picked up his bow […]
Read more "Hunting for the Church"Yesterday I spilled coffee on my keyboard. Thankfully not my laptop’s keyboard – I attach a full keyboard – and this keyboard lay directly in the splash zone. I flipped it over and let the coffee run out. Then tissue dried the keys. Last I turned on my desk fan for a final dry. Amazingly […]
Read more "Double You"“Between the trains going by and people going west and coming back and highways going through, there’s a sense of everyone wanting to be elsewhere.” ~ Dan Maginn quoted in the KC Star Amid the concrete and steal of downtown. Atop a six-story garage filled with cars, grows a field of prairie grass. There rests […]
Read more "Business of Life"This morning I got up early. I needed to be at the hospital to pray before a surgery. I also woke Meg up, since she was teaching PDO, and we went through our sleepy eyed routine. Mumbling. After getting dressed, I closed my door and walked down the dark hall. As is all too common […]
Read more "Mumbling"We took Ivy up to Dogwood Elementary’s playground. It has a flat black-top that is perfect for learning to ride a bike. But perfect does not mean easy. So Ivy tumbled all over the place, as I helped her ride back and forth. We also brought up Phoebe’s 12-inch princess bike with training wheels, but […]
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