Home Coming
I’m in a hole. The further down I go, the darker it gets. Oh, I don’t know I’m in a hole. I’m busy with projects and activities, schedules and travel. I scurry to complete, scour to clean up, check for misaligned pieces and missing parts. Anyone who looks my way would likely call me capable, […]
failing my way to success
Yesterday, I received notification that the proposal for my book had been rejected. Nope. Not gonna happen. Not now. Not by that publisher. I had inquired earlier in the day, dredging up my courage to ask, even if the news was not good news. The response came: I checked with the editor and he was […]
What can one voice do? write the middle chapters
I am sensing frustration and dissent out there. People who see that change is needed and want to make it. But they’re just one person. One voice. USA.gov (tagline, “government made easy”) reads, Due to a lapse in funding, the U.S. federal government has shut down. Call 1-800-FED-INFO (1-800-333-4636) for answers to government questions. I […]
Newly Written
Remember the days when you didn’t dare make a mistake typing that term paper? Because a mis-cue meant re-typing the whole thing? Slathering on the white out was unacceptable. Remember the relief when they introduced the correction cartridge? Erasing a mistake was as simple as typing over the letters in white. Only we knew what […]
Teaching is not fixing but founding
Golf fitness is, apparently, big business these days. Didn’t used to be, in the days when tournament champions sported beer guts and nicknames like Walrus, Golden Bear and Big Mama. Now they are Tiger and Bam Bam and Popeye. It’s commonplace to see commercials or ads touting flexibility programs or strength training routines or infomercials […]
A love like that
“Even after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with A love like that. It lights the whole sky.” ~ Anonymous I offer this today in the name of all those who, in the name of love, have given me so much and expected nothing in […]
Thank God for Windex
How does the gunk get on the INSIDE of my windshield? I know about acid rain and air pollution. I get that the trees dispense pollen and the birds do occasionally poop mid flight. And of course there are the unfortunate bugs that come to their final resting place on the windshield of my car. […]
Go ahead, run that stop sign!
If I come to a complete stop, I’m stuck. Not that I’m prone to hyperactivity. I’m actually quite a measured person. I consider carefully what I do. I’m not a risk-taker or an impulsive doer. Just a mover. Something about being in motion gives me a sense of myself in space, in place, in life. […]
What’s “Thy Kingdom” and when will it get here?
Our God is a very patient God. With all that we’ve done to deny and defy and dismiss Him or Her since the beginning of time … I’d call that patient. God promised, in Christ, to come again and to bring His kingdom with Him. What if that’s not a descent from the Holy above […]
Saving me for more than earning
There is something about a story told well. I can skip the narration, though it adds context. I can breeze through the detailed description, though it adds intensity. For me, the story comes alive in the dialogue between characters you have come to know and love as you have met them, journeyed with them, and […]