Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
Earlier this month, I picked up two books related to the topic of shame (see previous post), and I started reading the more psychological of the two right away (“The Soul of Shame” by Curt Thompson). Three weeks later, and I finally finished reading my fourth book of the year. Thompson’s book was a...
Read more →Last week, Tom Terry, an acquaintance of mine from back in my KLYT radio days and a Campus Crusade (Cru) guy, posted the title of a book he had started reading. Tom is a solid theology guy, and though I do not usually react to things he posts online, his book title caught my...
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Twenty five years ago, I and my middle school chum Glenn began our European jaunt with a short sail crossing a sea. With today being the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion in WWII, I figured it was as good as anything to post what I was doing over there 25 years ago. “We...
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While trying to come up with a meaningful topic for the morning, I spent a while online tracking my friend Ben finishing the Charlottesville Marathon. Several miles from the finish line, he was being paced by the women’s leader of the race, and he was slowly creeping closer to her. It was good drama,...
Read more →This morning I dreamed I went back to the seminary I attended to tour its campus and when I went I took my pet beagle with me and while I was in a building there my dog got away from me and disappeared and I panicked and ran room by room through the building...
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I came home tonight from work tonight feeling much like I have many evenings recently. Listless. Unfocused. Anxious. Frustrated. Tired. Isolated. Stuck. The natural answer to the symptoms at the moment was to just go out and walk. So I went out and walked for an hour. It was good to just move randomly...
Read more →When Billy was not quite three, when my dad’s folks lived in Dodge City, before Dad was born, Billy was outside playing with a neighborhood boy. The neighbor boy had a gun. In whatever they were doing, there were bullets on the ground, and the boy told Billy to pick up some of them....
Read more →I had an internal crisis this week that was a good wake-up call in a few areas. I received a phishing email very early Thursday morning that claimed that a hacker had accessed my hard drive through a compromised email account, and that the intruder had planted malware on my computer that would share...
Read more →It’s funny what sticks with you over the years. When I was a freshman at Eldorado High School, unsure and unconfident, I remember one fall evening sitting out on the big rock by the east parking lot waiting for a ride home. It was following an evening tryout for the school’s basketball teams. It...
Read more →Spoiler Alert: Not intending to give the show away, I do provide descriptions here that do explain some of the plot of “The Good Place”. Read on if that is okay with you. If you haven’t watched the show yet, it is excellent, and I’d encourage you to check it out. One of my...
Read more →It’s a basic principle in Christian theology, at least within Reformation churches, that there is a grand gulf between God’s holiness and our fallen, corrupted souls. It was a common refrain in the Evangelical Explosion materials I learned in my teens, and sewn up front into the basic Four Spiritual Laws tract so many...
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“He had a peace of mind I couldn’t find in Rocketown And when I reached down inside me I could feel the emptiness What was his mission Where was he going Why was his heart light Always glowing All I was missing He stood there holding What was his secret Could I know it”...
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I wanted to go ahead and post this Sean Tucker video today as perhaps an encouragement to myself for one day down the road- probably sooner than later- when I am questioning my investment in creative enterprises. But I also wanted to post it for anyone who has hobbies- for anyone who puts in...
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On Saturday, September 29th, Betty Rhodus passed away. Betty was a big presence in the lives of the Weltons, starting back in the late 70’s when Dad moved us across town from the bustling Juan Tabo and Copper area to a house in a new, largely undeveloped swath in Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights. Our new...
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The 2018 Cubs ended their post-season run as soon as it began last night with a 2-1 13-inning chess match Wild Card loss to the visiting Colorado Rockies. The last game of the season for the Cubs was like 39 of the 163 other games they played this year, with the Cubs scoring 1...
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