300 words a day

Hi friends. Nancy suggested that I talk about branches today. I think it was on her mind because of cleaning up a bunch of small branches that blew out of the trees in our back yard on Sunday evening. Or because of the large branch that fell in our neighbor’s yard. Or the one that […]

On Friday, I went on my usual daily walk around the neighborhood. It was, by my usual measures, a failure. I started later than usual. I was slower than usual. I only walked a mile, where I’ve been trying to get closer to three each morning. Just as when I was running regularly until a […]

God. Everyone in the story is dead. Abraham. Isaac. Jacob. Joseph. Moses. Aaron. And countless kings who support and opposed them. And countless women, unnamed here, but mentioned elsewhere. Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Rachel, Leah, Shiphrah, Puah, Miriam, Zipporah. All of them lived and died. Worried and wondered and worked. And heard from you. When the […]

Reflections on the costs of following Jesus and on the true cost of asking God for what we want

Thrifting is what Nancy and I do for fun. Seldom antiques, mostly just stuff. The other day, in a store we frequent, I asked if the vinyl records were gone. “No,” the staff member said. “They’ve been moved. But would you like to see the new ones someone just brought in? Like 100 or so?” I agreed. […]