Gift

Here is the report from Jenny in Haiti — thank you for faithfully giving to make this happen! (At Christmas we sent gift bags for kids in the mountain community Magandou, including toys and practical gifts, also children’s books in French. Then we sent solar powered lights for each house.): For the event, we sent […]

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Effort

We are about to set off on another Valentine Scavenger Hunt. With the world playing Wordle (including me, Meg, and Ivy) that seemed an appropriate hunt theme. If you have not started playing Wordle, you should (start now!). It is a simple search for a five letter word and it doesn’t induce any four letter […]

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Hearing

It is not that other lights are so bright, “but that the flickering candle of Christian formation was so dim.” — David Brooks, NYTimes Writing this blog, I occasionally have random people contact me. I shared in a recent message about a call from a “pagan” who praised my writing (I tempted her to go […]

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Boy Caught

“Nobody cares about the Uyghurs.” – NBA WARRORS Part Owner The Olympics are about to start. Triple axel spins, snow slalom rush, even curling sweeps — the one sport I feel we could get a group together and compete… yet in the all the pomp, the FBI reminded our athletes to buy burner phones. Frightening, […]

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Friend

“Do your best to come quickly.” — 2Timothy 4:9 I arrived home after a long day. Church details, a funeral service, a cold graveside. Meg met me in the garage talking about Ezekiel and pumpkin muffins. I had eaten the last one before heading to the office and he was angry. Thankfully Meg had frozen […]

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