Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
It’s 9:15 in the morning now, and the Sagebrush Highland team has set up for the first public service today. It was a fast set set up- we started at 6- and the working crew has disbanded for two hours until the service starts at 11:15. There is a lot of excitement about this...
Read more →For whatever reason this morning, I was led to sit down and chew on John 15 for a short bit in my quiet time. This is a chapter in John in which Jesus is addressing his disciples after they have just ate their last Passover meal together, he has watched their feet, and he...
Read more →“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. (C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed).” I have never been good at letting in; I am doubly as poor at letting go. My mom says when I was a toddler, I would cry when the saltine crackers she gave me broke and I couldn’t...
Read more →With the weather in the mid-50’s and the sky misty this morning, there was a good rainfall coming down and clouds covered the sky when the sun rose. I thought, “So this is what it’s like to train in Seattle.” It felt great to run in the rain. A raspberry mocha hit the spot...
Read more →I’ll admit it. In many ways, this has been a great summer in my life. After years of apartment living, I somehow found myself in a home this summer, with interest rates at an all-time low and with buyers free to pick up bargains. I’ve been consistent this summer running, keeping up (mostly) with...
Read more →I am amazed at the grace of God. In the random moments when I can shake myself loose from my preoccupations, preconceptions, and prejudices, and my self falls by the side, He is there. I know this because I can look around in this world, and while planes crash and people contract cancer...
Read more →Struggling over losing a friend, these lyrics leapt from the grief one day. I still love the girl. Fallen I wish I knew what I could say To make you see it’s not that way That everything I’ve ever said before Was just a way of trying to be Someone you would want to...
Read more →For the last two months, I have been going through a book study with a friend. We decided to dive into the study because we had a talk one evening and both realized that we didn’t feel our faith was making an impact in our lives. I had been given a copy of Dan...
Read more →It’s been over three months since my last post, and like that, I am reminded how quickly time flies. There is no slowing it down. Oddly enough, I am aware of this every day (that time is passing), but I fail to make the moments of each day count, and then occasionally I wake...
Read more →It seems perfectly suitable to me to take a moment in this first post to think about the monument which lies in a birthday- especially when you have been faced with the prospects of your own end. Today is my friend Tim’s birthday. On this day some fifty-plus years ago he came into this...
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