300 words a day

Dear friend with many years of life experience: Paul wrote to a church he loved deeply and was deeply concerned about. He sent Timothy to check on them. And he learned that they were doing great. He affirmed that they knew how to love each other, “having been taught by God to love one another.” Then […]

God. There are so many words. And we aren’t sure which ones to trust. We listen uncritically to the words that support what we believe, unwilling to consider the motives behind them. We read stories that tug at our hearts, unaware that they are created by human and machine to play our hearts. We aren’t […]

This week we went to buy school supplies to go in backpacks to be distributed through the food bank Nancy volunteers with. There was a list: 100 of these things, 14 of that thing, a dozen of that thing. When I looked at the list, the location of all the things made sense. I found […]

Tuesday afternoon, I took a scrap piece of aluminum siding and turned it into a corner cap to replace the one that disappeared when a crew was stabilizing our foundation a couple months back. The corner caps are hard to find and I couldn’t see how to buy just one. I realized that I had […]