This afternoon, my brother texted my immediate family with some good news, and my mom replied to him that it called for a fat celebration for he and his wife. She gave him an encouraging word, and then in an immediate followup text to just me and my dad, she said “I’ll fix supper...
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It’s a ritual now. Every few months- long enough after the last time so that it seems like it’s been a while, but short enough for my nephew Grant to remember to request it- my mom makes chicken and noodles. Mom’s chicken and noodles is the kind that is made with thick egg noodles...
Read more →Appreciative of systemists like James Fowler, I offer here an artificial framework for thinking about grace. Recognizing that God and His workings are mysterious, this post in no way suggests that I have “figured out” how God sprinkles His grace into the events of human lives. When He does, though, this article suggests how...
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My boss keeps a blog, and I like how he does it. He doesn’t have to write about every single thing that happened in a day. He just picks a thing or two, and that is good for the day. Of course, his blog features his photography, which is always exceptional. Still, I like...
Read more →On Thursday, our group got to take a break during the day from regular work activities, and enjoy some time playing tourists. It was also a special day for us because two people with us had decided to get baptized when we went to the beach- and today was beach day. After breakfast, we...
Read more →After maintaining decorum by posting notes five nights in a row while in Puerto Rico (6 if you count the day before we left), I ran into a mental block called tiredness and stalled on my up-to-the-day reporting. What follows is my effort to recover my memories of what happened on day 7. Day...
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