How You Can Make A Difference

How You Can Make A Difference

Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of God’s willingness.Martin Luther If God will do what He wants to do when He wants to do it, why pray? Agnostic pundits and chronic doubters love this question. In their minds it makes...
Memorial Day and Those Rough Men on the Wall

Memorial Day and Those Rough Men on the Wall

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. Attributed to George Orwell When I was 19 years old and living in West Germany with a missions team, we visited the Luxembourg American Cemetery and...
13 Random Thinkings While There’s Time

13 Random Thinkings While There’s Time

Before our brains turn to jello, let’s take a few minutes and consider some Random Life Observations – my Random Life Observations, obviously. Here we go: There are few cookie recipes that cannot be improved by adding chocolate chips and walnuts.People who...
Love Note to Socially Distanced Moms

Love Note to Socially Distanced Moms

8 year old: Can we order pizza?Mom: Not tonight, son. Your dad went hunting for groceries this morning and we’re going to microwave burritos just like the pioneers did. Dear Moms: Just want to say that you will never have a more important job in your life than...
What I Used to Think

What I Used to Think

I used to want to fix people. Now I just want to be with them. Bob Goff There are, I’ve discovered, some benefits in a season of isolation. The first is crystal clear hindsight. I look back at life before Stay home, people! and it appears productive,...