I took some time at lunch today to watch the online feed of the memorial service for Tim Keller, who passed several weeks ago from cancer. Keller, founder and lead pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, was a giant in evangelical circles, if nothing more for his constant Christocentric approach to church and...
Read more →I met my pal and writing chum Tammie this morning, and as we settled into our semi-monthly routine of ordering some coffees, unbundling our gear at our table at the restaurant, and chatting a few about the recent events in our lives, our talk touched on current life and relationships, and my mind revisited...
Read more →When 2022 started, I decided to set a few goals for myself. One of them, you see here- a commitment to writing something on this blog every day. Another goal I set was to read through the New Testament during the year by taking it one chapter at a time, reading just 5 chapters...
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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...
Read more →“But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.” – Matthew 19:22 In Matthew, Mark and Luke, the Gospel authors each tell the story of a wealthy young man who comes to Jesus and asks him what one must do to enter the Kingdom of Heaven....
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I try to recall how I ended up dancing that distant dance those years with you Come pray with me you asked I will pray with you I replied And so we met plainly cordially quietly in the library and muttered wishing words asking for youthful and holy and grand and kind things and...
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The year 2022 here in Albuquerque started off with rain and overcast skies today, which later turned briefly into snow showers in the afternoon. But despite the thermometer registering temps in the twenties as the evening wrapped up, it was a very warm day today for myself and my family, because it was my...
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My goal this November was to replace TV and web surfing with, basically, reading. I surprised myself and finished 10 books in 29 days, which has to be a record for me. The last one I picked up to read was a nod to my heart, which at one time was so passionate about...
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“We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very...
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 →Tonight, after a decent effort this afternoon and evening at work, I came home with little energy, but enough to load a DVD into the DVD player, and I am glad I finally did. Tonight’s film, received from Netflix nearly two months ago, has inexplicably sat beckoning to viewed, and for whatever reason, I...
Read more →But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” ~Matthew 9:13 I was walking to lunch earlier this week, just thinking about life, observing people passing by me on the sidewalk, and cars driving by in the road near work....
Read more →Tonight I was going to write a short story about Svengard and his impetuous boss at the hardware store who asks him what kind of name that is- a Communist one? His boss was an idiot and a jerk, also know as an ijiot, but Svengard is kind to the good ole ijiot and...
Read more →I have a sense of where to go with the Ruby story, but just do not have it in me tonight to whittle the next chapter out. Too tired. I will just say Thank You to my folks for raising me around the Bible. The world is weird. Progress says that all of our...
Read more →Cry, but do not quake. In the end, we are droplets dripping into the same sea. Spirit to spirit, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Light takes flight, and dark sloughs off until the next spark, the next miraculous burn, the next colorful comet. But we, our incandescence done, commune with the Maker, our...
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I try to remember when Ishqa was little. I don’t know if I have any pictures of him as a little one. But one day he wasn’t there- not even the idea of him as a pet. And the next day he was. He was a pound kitty when I got him, like each...
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