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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What would people see in me, if they could never hear or read any of my words again? In that one area where we express our affiliation and our value of that person to another, I am trying to re-remind myself: it is not in what I say that matters. It really is in...
Read more →Today has been an odd day. It’s been kind of like everything that happened today has been on “mute”. Life spins and swirls around me, but everyone and everything I know feels far away, and I can see mouths moving, but I can’t hear anything. It’s the feeling of being a bubble boy. You...
Read more →I’m pretty naive when it comes to politics, and I’d have to say, I’ve chosen that ignorance much of the way, and I don’t mind it. Politics, in a classical sense, is the art of distributing power, and perhaps in a purer day, politicians were considered icons in some societies because they truly wrangled...
Read more →When I was between my sophomore and junior years of college, I was happy to be able to participate in a summer missions project. Growing up as a Baptist kid in Southern Baptist churches, it was natural that I continued my denominational association in college. Right across the street from the University of New...
Read more →Tonight I just wanted to celebrate my brother Tim. In three days, Tim will finally board a plane and leave Albuquerque to head halfway around the world- back to his country, back to his family, back to his new life in Melbourne. Over the last three and some years, I’ve been lucky enough to...
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Thanksgiving morning. Today is a special, festive day, no doubt. In 3 hours or so, the family will be gathered at my folk’s house, and the smell of turkey and dressing and pumpkin pies and gravy will fill every room. The low clamor of multiple conversations will amble until food is brought to the...
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...
Read more →I had lunch with my good friend Jenise today, and we took some time to visit about what has been going on in our lives the last week or so. At one point, she asked me about how things were going in our church small group. “Things in our small group have been pretty...
Read more →Another weekend closes down. I am entering this post after finishing up a good 7 hours of being at work staring at the project that won’t build itself. Not all of this time has been spent on programming. I am still in a mental fog from sleep hunger and whatever else is stifling my...
Read more →This weekend, much like last weekend, was a celebration of relationships. The highlights of my weekend featured time with my friends and family. I mean, come on, how can I top this? On Friday night after work I did my regular Graham’s hitch to socialize and dance and shed the tension of the work...
Read more →After a great weekend away with my brother and his gals in Colorado, it was kind of hard to go back to work this morning. It probably didn’t help that I didn’t get last night’s post finished until 1:30 AM. That’ll take you out a bit in the morning. I do remember having two...
Read more →Tomorrow my brother and I get to drop everything in our lives, jump in a truck and drive to Denver, and then on early Thursday morning, we’ll hop a plane to Atlanta and then fly on to Bayámon, Puerto Rico. This trip has been a few months in the making, but in reality, it...
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