It’s been a couple of days since I have written and posted anything here. I guess the silence has been useful to let me know that at least two people read these posts. It’s always encouraging to hear back from friends that they miss your posts. Encouragement to write is always well received. For...
Read more →I started trying to write a really deep and cool post earlier today which I thought would totally come together this evening- a post about how becoming a Christian is like a making a big move from one country to another, and how it is not only like making a big move like that, but...
Read more →I was digging around in a few boxes in the garage tonight when I came across a thin hard-covered little book I hadn’t seen in a while. The little book was a journal from the summer of 1994. A travel notebook. Decorating the front cover of the notebook is an old map with hand-drawn...
Read more →For whatever reason, whenever I hear a Richard Marx song, I think mainly of two things- one, the killer CD boom box my brother bought back in the day, and the other, mowing yards on sweltering summer afternoons in 1988. I think of the killer CD boom box because it had exceptional bass, complete...
Read more →I’m a melancholy. This means I often wade out into each day half-cocked, one foot in and one foot out, anticipating morning misgivings and wishing my work space was a mattress-lined, dimly-lit den, and that my work was simply to wake up and go back to sleep five times a day. My mood grabs...
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Read more →It’s Monday evening, around 9:30, and it has been a good evening at home tonight. I spent much of the evening getting caught up on my Bible reading so that I stay on track for completing it in a year. It was a quiet evening, and it was good to absorb the words and...
Read more →It is now about 10:10 on Thursday evening after a normal but full day of activities. It’s been a little while since I have written here, if only because I have failed to make the time. It has been a busy week, as it has been a busy day, and I have had plenty...
Read more →Today was a decent day, but unfortunately it ended with a second Lobo loss this week. If you are a UNM Lobo hoops fan, this week has been pretty enlightening and disheartening, as we have seen where our men’s team stands related to the other top conference contenders. Lobo basketball is still the biggest...
Read more →In this season of drought and dearth in my life, today’s reading in Genesis (chapters 22-24) brought home a point that I reckon I need to hear: God asks us to obey Him, and God provides. In His time, according to His will, He provides. In chapter 22, after giving Abraham and Sarah a...
Read more →It’s 8:30 on Monday night, and I am home after enjoying dinner at my folks’ house with my sister’s family. My sister is out of town, and so Mom and Dad graciously had her husband and sons and exchange student along with myself over to indulge in her chicken and noodles specialty, which one...
Read more →When I got up on Saturday morning (sorta early), I went to see my friend Brad, and we talked. I hadn’t seen Brad for probably 2 months, and so I hadn’t talked to him since before Christmas and New Years and Kwanza and my mom’s birthday. Brad looked great, and yet the same to...
Read more →On this holiday, some thoughts on courage by Martin Luther King, Jr. “Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it. Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency ask the question, is it politic? Vanity...
Read more →This morning, I met my regular running buddy Kurt for our semi-weekly trot of torture around the Academy Loop. It’s not always a trot of torture, but this morning, it was especially , ummm, “invigorating” because the thermometer read 27 degrees at the house when I left it at 5:50. Bundled up, I met...
Read more →I just witnessed a disillusioning exchange on Twitter this evening between financial expert Suze Orman and a number of bloggers who questioned her about the benefits of her new prepaid debit card program. I’ve been a fan of Suze’s for some time, but her (or her PR rep’s) responses on Twitter to her inquirers...
Read more →On the Desiring God website, John Piper sits down with Doug Wilson for an interview about what it means to be a man. This interview is broken into several excerpts. In this excerpt, Piper asks Wilson what it means to be masculine. In short, Wilson says the hallmark of a man is this: Men...
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